Sherrod Brown, a newly elected Democratic senator from Ohio who serves on the banking committee, said, “While the economy is good for people at the top, it’s not so good for a steelworker in Lorain, Ohio, or a small-business owner in Dayton”. Representative Charles Wilson, another newly elected Democrat from Ohio and a member of the financial services panel, said that “people in my district, when they pick up the paper, aren’t checking their stock holdings. They’re checking the help-wanted ads.”
