From: Elizabeth Mooney
Sent: May 24, 2016
To: rule-comments@sec.gov
Subject: Comment on File Number 4-637

The Securities and Exchange Commission should require publicly traded corporations to disclose their political spending. Please return the rule to the unified agenda and complete it as soon as possible.

It would be absurd for a small business owner not to know if his or her company’s money is being spent to help elect politicians. The same holds true for shareholders. Both shareholders and the public must be fully informed as to how much corporations spend on politics and which candidates are being promoted or attacked. Disclosures should be posted promptly on the SEC’s web site.

This is particularly important now, given the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.  Furthermore, we now have a global economy in which players like state-run Chinese companies are taking large, even majority, stakes in American corporations.

Thank you for considering my comment.

Elizabeth Mooney