The Center for Corporate Policy is a non-profit, non-partisan public interest organization working to curb corporate abuses and make corporations publicly accountable.

    Current Issues:

Public Funding of Elections ("Clean Elections"/"Voter-Owned Elections") makes it easier for average citizens to challenge corporate candidates in elections -- as has happened in a growing number of states and cities. Federal candidates should co-sponsor or pledge their support for either the Senate Fair Elections Now Act (S. 1285) or the House "Clean Money, Clean Elections Act" (H.R. 1614). Both bills have bi-partisan support. To learn more, see Just 6 Dollars and Public Campaign.

Offshore tax havens suck $100 billion out of the U.S. each year. "Benedict Arnold Companies" manipulate offshore schemes, while hiring powerful lobbyists to block Congressional action. The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2008 (PL 110-161) bars companies that reincorporate offshore to avoid taxes from receiving federal contracts. Now comes the "Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act" (S. 681), whcih would further restrict offshore tax haven abuses by both companies and individuals. For a summary of the bill, go here. To learn more about offshore tax haven abuses, go here.

Tell Congress: Crack Down on Executive Excess!
Learn about CEO Pay Issues and our Suggested Policy Proposals.

Stop the War Profiteers - Key Legislation:

a) The Stop Outsourcing Security Act (H.R. 4102) would phase out the use of Blackwater and other mercenary firms.
b) The Honest Leadership and Accountability in Contracting Act (S. 606) was introduced by Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) in 2007. This bill would bar law-breaking companies from new contracts, help whistleblowers and improve accountability and oversight. See [Bill Summary; our response and analysis]
c) "The Clean Contracting Act" (H.R. 6909) was introduced by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) in the House. [Summary HR 6909] These bills apply lessons learned from Iraq and Katrina contracting to all federal contracts. For more information about war profiteering go here.

    Long-Term Perspectives:

In 2007, the Center for Corporate Policy helped develop the Strategic Corporate Initiative -- a long-term approach to bringing corporations back under public control. To learn more about the SCI report, see Corporate Ethics International's description of the project.

Taming the Giant Corporation was the theme of a 2007 Conference that we helped organize. If you missed the conference, you can watch most of the presentations online.

Also, be sure to read "Revisiting Corporate Charters", our paper on how corporate charters could be used as an instrument of public policy. The paper was published by Corporation2020 for their 2007 conference in Boston. The paper is a sequel to an earlier paper called "Corporations and the Public Purpose."

Additional CCP Topics, Projects and Investigations:

CCP's List of Recommended Reading
Size Matters: The Failure to Address Concentrated Economic Power
Corporate Bribery Page
Congressional Ethics Reform
Wal-Mart Information Page.
Supreme Court nominations.
A Loaded Chamber: Big Business Attacks Sarbanes-Oxley and Other Post-Enron Reforms
2006 Budget Proposal.
The 2004 elections
State and Local Policies.