SEC Schedules Vote on Controversial Extractive Industry Rule The latest version of the rule seeks to reduce the compliance burden on oil, gas and mining companies, but has drawn opposition from anticorruption advocates The SEC is scheduled to vote Wednesday on a rule requiring the disclosure of payments made by oil, gas and mining companies to foreign governments. Photo: delil souleiman/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images By Dec. 14, 2020 5:30 am ET The U.S. Securities and Commission is scheduled to vote this week on a rule mandating the disclosure of payments made by oil, gas and mining companies to foreign governments. A vote on the rule, scheduled for Wednesday, could bring to close another chapter in a decadelong attempt to enact a controversial provision of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that was designed to help stave off corruption by companies in resource extraction industries.