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From 2020 to 2024, the number of shareholder proposals increased steadily, fueled by growing interest in the E and S issues of the ESG mix. Read more here.

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 ...

For decades, proxy voting was largely ignored and bundled away as a niche back-office chore best entrusted to third parties.

Climate targets and commitments were the focus of the three most successful climate-related proxy votes in the most recent proxy season. All failed to achieve an outright majority but received at ...

In a spate of recent articles examining House Speaker Mike Johnson’s position on proxy voting, the congressman defended his refusal to allow Colorado congresswoman (and new mother) Brittany Pettersen ...

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 ...

Republicans who had been poised to force a vote on changing House rules to allow new parents to vote remotely pulled back after the speaker offered a narrower solution for new mothers. By Annie Karni ...

GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna said Sunday that she has reached an agreement with Speaker Mike Johnson in their standoff over allowing proxy voting for new parents, which had paralyzed the House last week ...