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Featuring: Troy Downing, Republican | U.S. House Montana, 2nd Congressional District

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Troy Downing: Activists Tried To 'Force Companies' To Adopt Policies Dems Couldn't Pass In Congress

Published | Video Starts at 03:14

And the SEC under the previous leadership, essentially encouraged activists to force companies to consider and adopt policy changes that Joe Biden and the Democrats could not get through through Congress. Thankfully, SEC Chair Paul Atkins has already rescinded some of these decisions that permitted the worst abuses of the shareholder proposal process. I'm going to move on to Mrs. Keel. In June, the D.C. district Court upheld the SEC's 2020amendments to Rule 14A8, which set eligibility requirements for submitting shareholder proposals. (03:14–03:22)

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Asserts that SEC Chair Paul Atkins rescinded decisions allowing abuses in the shareholder proposal process.

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