There’s “a yawning disclosure black hole” around corporate lobbying at the state level, according to a new report by the Sustainable Investments Institute shared exclusively with The Hill. Commissioned by Public Citizen, the report found 98 percent of S&P 500 companies do not provide their investors with state-specific lobbying totals, and 97 percent do not…
In a letter Wednesday shared exclusively with The Hill, five Democrats who sit on the Senate Banking Committee urged the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to require companies to disclose more details on their corporate lobbying strategy to shareholders. The senators want the SEC to develop a new rule that would “require registered companies to…