Elizabeth Warren Gets Bigger Senate Platform for Her Populist Message
1/23/15

The Massachusetts senator has been named the top Democrat on a subcommittee of the Senate Banking panel focusing on economic policy, the committee’s ranking Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio said Friday.

The subcommittee’s wide-ranging jurisdiction includes economic growth, employment, price stability, and the Federal Reserve’s interest rate policy-making. Sharing the stage with Ms. Warren will be Republican Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada, a centrist who has worked with Democrats on some issues in the past and who has been named the subcommittee’s chairman.

Ms. Warren’s rise to media prominence has been helped along by her tough questioning of witnesses at Senate Banking Committee hearings. Her grilling of top financial regulators in 2013 over why they didn’t seek to put more big bank chiefs in jail quickly racked up more than a million hits on YouTube. Her new post will expand Ms. Warren’s opportunity to flex those particular skills.

The subcommittee position is just the latest recognition of Ms. Warren’s rising stature in the Democratic Party...

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