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It’s proxy-voting season, when shareholders get to vote on issues affecting a company’s risks and its place in the world. You can read a primer about proxy voting here. This year, the current US ...

The notion of “shareholder democracy” has become a pervasive part of corporate rhetoric and woke media narrative. However, as a forthcoming article in the Florida Law Review argues, this concept is ...

WASHINGTON — A tentative deal has been reached with the Florida Republican leading a bipartisan push to allow proxy voting in the U.S. House for new parents, potentially ending a standoff that halted ...

House Republicans are battling over whether and how to squash a looming vote on allowing new parents to vote by proxy, after Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) circumvented leadership by using a rarely ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday endorsed a proposal that would allow new parents in Congress to vote by proxy, rather than in person. Immigration officials plan to spend $38.3 ...

As a bipartisan measure to allow new parents in Congress to vote by proxy has failed, some lawmakers hope their states can find solutions to bring and keep younger women in state capitols. Republican ...

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WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR)– Only about a dozen women in history have given birth while serving in Congress, the first in the 1970s. Many lawmakers who are also new parents argue the legislative branch has ...

A bipartisan bill to codify proxy voting for new parents in the House rules is shaping up to be an ugly fight between rank-and-file Republicans and GOP leaders, and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) is ...

Proxy-voting certainly took the spotlight in 2025. We saw the SEC narrow the scope of permissible shareholder proposals toward the beginning of the year. And toward the end, a White House executive ...

BlackRock and Vanguard have released their proxy voting guidelines for the 2026 proxy season. This alert highlights the key updates in BlackRock Investment Stewardship’s (BIS) proxy voting guidelines ...