What else is in the legislation to reopen the government a lot? I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles.

We've been going through the legislation that reopened the federal government last night. It's good through the end of January. And the various bills that are now law also fund military construction, farms, and a lot more.

Marketplaces Nancy Marshall-Genzor is going

through the line items. There's plenty of money for lawmakers' pet projects or earmarks in the

appropriations bill for military construction funding for an Army dining facility in Alaska and

flight control towers in Alabama. The Agriculture Department will be able to restart loan

processing for farmers. There are earmarks here, too, money for a Rice Research Center in Arkansas

and a Center for Technical Innovation in Hawaii. There are also appropriations for rural broadband,

telemedicine, and rental assistance. And the FDA funding bill allows the agency to destroy

imported counterfeit tobacco products like vapes. I'm Nancy Marshall Genser for Marketplace.

Context now on a Wall Street Journal report that the White House might limit the power of firms

that suggest to shareholders how to vote on corporate

matters. Here's Marketplace's Nova Saffo. If you want to hear J.P. Morgan Chase CEO, Jamie Diamond,

launch into a tirade. Just ask him about proxy advisory firms. Anyone who used them, shame on you.

I thought you were. I mean, shame on you.

That's Diamond at a semaphore forum in March.

Yeah, they certainly got under his skin.

And that's Robert Bartlett, faculty co-director of the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford.

The they, he's talking about, are two dominant proxy advisory firms, institutional shareholder services,

ISS, and Glass Lewis. Bartlett says they're often involved in advising large firms like mutual fund managers on how to vote on various corporate issues, from who should be on the board of

directors to reducing carbon footprints.

Management is relying on shareholders to approve various items.

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