Elizabeth Warren has long been the bane of the banking industry with her calls for more consumer protections. Now the Massachusetts senator is poised to be the leading voice of her party on financial issues if the election results in a reshuffling that would make her the top Democrat on the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee.
Warren would step up if Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), the current chairman of the committee, were to lose his race in what is a tight election against Republican Bernie Moreno, the former owner of a car dealer empire.
Another corporate antagonist, Sen. Richard ...