If Congress spurns the global tax deal, other countries are ready fill that void and collect taxes themselves to bring U.S.-based companies up to the 15% global minimum.

Facing the hottest cost pressures in 40 years, policymakers have lifted the target for the federal funds rate by 1.5% over the past two months—the steepest increase since the price-fighting era of Paul Volcker in the early 1980s.

"NGS has been forced to file supplemental proxy statements in response to this misleading proxy advice in seven of the past nine annual proxy seasons."