There Is A New Plan To Stop Wall Street Raiders From Preying On Main Street Companies
WASHINGTON — A new Senate bill tries to make it just a little bit harder for activist hedge funds to exploit healthy companies rather than invest in their future. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) introduced the Brokaw Acton Thursday, which would strengthen disclosure requirements for activist hedge
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are going after activist hedge funds
Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Bernie Sanders of Vermont are going after activist hedge funds. The senators have sponsored a bill seeking to increase transparency and oversight of activist investors who take large stakes in companies, usually with the goal of gaining board seats and spurring change within companies.
2 Senate Democrats Introduce Bill to Curb Activist Hedge Funds
Two Senate Democrats introduced a bill on Thursday that would take aim at activist hedge funds and their ability to act together in “wolf packs” to overtake public companies. The bill would shorten the number of days that activists have to disclose newly acquired shares in a company and force
U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin And Jeff Merkley Introduce Legislation To Strengthen Oversight Of Activist Hedge Funds
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) introduced legislation to increase transparency and strengthen oversight of activist hedge funds. The Brokaw Act is named for a small Wisconsin town that went bankrupt after an out-of-state hedge fund closed a paper mill that had provided good jobs to
TSA-Klamath airport bill tied to FAA financing bill
Oregon Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden’s bipartisan Treating Small Airports with Fairness Act, or ‘TSA Fairness Act,’ took one step closer to passage when the Senate Commerce Committee voted to attach it to the upcoming FAA reauthorization bill. This legislation would restore TSA screening to the Crater Lake-Klamath Regional
Merkley Statement on Senate Defeat of “DARK Act”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley released the following statement after the U.S. Senate voted down a test vote on anti-GMO food labeling legislation commonly known as the “Denying Americans the Right to Know (DARK) Act:” “Today is a victory for American consumers. Ordinary Americans stood up and fought
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