Edit - I got my facts wrong. ;-)
The government is trying to get a law making stockholders able to have a say in choosing the board of directors in companies. A good idea but a lot of stockholders assign their votes to the thieves who would then elect themselves anyway.
Edit:
Oops! I misspoke. Don't know WHAT I was thinking. What the government is trying to do is get the stockholders to have a say in Executive pay packages. Yep, stockholders already vote on the board of directors. I was asleep at the keyboard.