if you listen, they are telling you what they are doing....

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http://www.npr.org/programs/all-things-considered/

Politics

Thousands Petition SEC To Disclose Corporate Political Spending

4:06

great example is andrew pincus at about the 3 minute mark about investors 'right to know'

http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&...

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Joining the Senate, the House of Representatives approved a measure today that repeals a requirement that top government officials post financial disclosures on the Internet.

The House, like the Senate, acted quietly without a vote. Instead, they sent the measure to the president's desk by unanimous consent.

The provision was part of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act (Stock), which became law in March of 2012. The act was intended to stop members of congress from profiting from nonpublic information.

As NPR's Tamara Keith reported, at the time, Sen. Joe Lieberman called the law "the most significant congressional ethics reform legislation to pass Congress in at least five years."

The Washington Post explains:

"That law mainly addressed conflict-of-interest policies for members of Congress and their staffs, but it also included a requirement that the financial disclosure forms filed by some 28,000 high-ranking federal employees be posted online.

"While those forms are public records, they must be requested individually from employing agencies. The Stock Act envisions online posting first on agency sites and later in a central, searchable database.

"The posting requirement was delayed three times out of concerns about the potential for identity theft and other crimes against career employees, as well as security risks to the government."

The Sunlight Foundation, which advocates for a more open government, called today's repeal an "epic failure."

The foundation explained that instead of addressing specific security concerns, Congress has acted broadly.

For instance, they note, the president, vice president, members of Congress, congressional candidates and individuals subject to Senate confirmation are still required to make their financial disclosures public. But the change in law now makes the posting of those disclosures on the Internet optional.

http://app1.kuhf.org/articles/npr1365800717-Congress-Repeals-Financ...

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...a thinly disguised attempt to "tale-over"

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both are attempts to keep knowledge from being more widely disseminated...that smug statement that the public and investors don't have any right to know what corporations are funding politically is simply bullshit...as an investor, i have an absolute RIGHT to know how my EMPLOYEES are managing my assets and funds....