At least one member of the House Democratic caucus suspects that Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) worked to scuttle the cromnibus over a proposed change to the Dodd-Frank financial-reform law in order to boost her profile ahead of the 2016 presidential campaign.

“I would not be surprised if Mrs. Warren’s position has something to do with the 2016 campaign,” retiring Representative Jim Moran (D., Va.) tells National Review Online, although he allowed that he was speculating. “I assume it does,” he says.

Warren owes her success in driving the Democratic caucus as much to her rivals as her friends, he suggested minutes earlier.

“There are a lot of people in the caucus that understand that the public at large, at least their more liberal constituencies, feel that this is a giveaway to Wall Street,” Moran told reporters. “And I think frankly there are some people that — they’re not going to let Elizabeth Warren get to the left of them.”