The proposed reform by President Barack Obama (also earlier purhsed by President George Bush's administration unsuccessfully) in the recently passed financial regulation law (that was subsequently stopped by a lawsuit) to encourage shareholder director nominations before the SEC would:

A.allow shareholders to vote directly for members of boards of directors rather than through institutional investors;

B.allow corporations under certain conditions to place the nominees for board seats of shareholders on the proxy in addition to management's nominees for a competitive election;

C.allow shareholder resolutions to limit the number of nominees to board seats;

D. force shareholders in all cases to nominate more individuals than the number of board seats open for election.