US - Five New York City pension funds have submitted shareholder proposals asking 10 companies to disclose their policies and procedures for all political contributions using corporate money.
Eight of the companies contributed US$667,500 in soft money to political activities during 2003-2004, the last fully reported election cycle. The proposals call on companies to prepare a report ...
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