如果民主党下周赢得国会两院的完全控制权，正如许多民调和预测市场所显示的那样，私募股权可能再次成为政治攻击的靶子。
If Democrats gain full control of Congress next week, as many polls and prediction markets suggest they will, private equity could once again find itself in the political crosshairs.
大局：私募股权已成为多位民主党众议员和参议员候选人的修辞“沙袋”，他们在辩论和竞选演说中将其视为可负担性问题的“眼中钉”。
The big picture: Private equity has become a rhetorical punching bag for a number of Democratic House and Senate candidates, including in debates and on the stump, as an affordability bête noire.
- 其中大部分涉及住房，包括独栋住宅和活动房屋，但也延伸到了医疗保健领域。
• Most of this has related to housing, both single-family and mobile homes, but also has extended to health care.
他们怎么说：“毫无疑问，住房问题已完全失控，其中很大一部分原因是私募股权进入了缅因州，”特洛伊·杰克逊在10月6日与参议员苏珊·柯林斯的辩论中说。“我认为我们必须打击私募股权，使其无法购买这些资产并收取离谱的价格。”
What they're saying: "It's no doubt that housing is way out of control and a big part of that is because private equity has come into Maine," said Troy Jackson in an Oct. 6 debate with Sen. Susan Collins. "I do think we have to go after private equity, make it so that they can't buy these things and charge outrageous prices."
- 正在竞选新罕布什尔州空缺参议员席位的克里斯·帕帕斯在一个活动房屋社区的竞选集会上表示：“我们需要……解决我们看到的住房危机，包括解决我们在住房领域看到的企业私募股权影响，这让住房变得更难负担，并给这个社区的居民带来了很多焦虑。”
• Chris Pappas, running for an open Senate seat in New Hampshire, said during a campaign stop at a mobile home community: "We need to... address the housing crisis that we're seeing, including addressing the corporate private equity influence that we're seeing in housing that's making it less affordable and is causing a lot of consternation here at this park."
- 众议员马西·卡普图尔（民主党-俄亥俄州）在一次公开活动中谴责私募股权拥有住宅护理设施，称：“那些人根本不懂医疗保健。”
• Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) decried PE ownership of residential care facilities during a public event, saying: "Those people know nothing about health care." State of play:
现状：国会今夏通过了一项两党法案，限制私募股权拥有独栋住宅，财政部上周发布了相关法规 • 尽管特朗普总统支持该法案，但因参议院未通过其选民身份识别法案而心生不满，拒绝签署，该立法仍然生效。
Congress passed a bipartisan bill this past summer to restrict PE ownership of single-family homes, with the Treasury Department last week issuing related regulations • The legislation became law despite not being signed by President Trump, who supported it but was in a snit over the Senate not passing his voter identification bill.
聚焦：民主党大获全胜可能导致参议员伊丽莎白·沃伦（民主党-马萨诸塞州）接任银行、住房和城市事务委员会主席一职，这意味着她将从撰写措辞严厉的信函转为举行听证会和主导立法。
Zoom in: A Democratic sweep would likely result in Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) taking the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee gavel, which means she'd go from writing strongly worded letters to holding hearings and guiding legislation.
- 她告诉Axios：“美国人对私募股权惯用的套路已经深恶痛绝——一个行业接一个行业地横扫而过，抬高价格，把本地企业和工人甩在身后。”“今年我们通过了一项两党法律，禁止私募股权收购住宅之后，各地的候选人都在以在下一届国会中约束私募股权为竞选主张，无论是在医院、移动房屋社区、养老护理机构还是其他行业。”
• "Americans are sick and tired of private equity's playbook of rolling through industry after industry, jacking up prices and leaving local businesses and workers in the dust," she tells Axios. "After we passed a bipartisan law this year to ban private equity from buying up homes, candidates everywhere are campaigning on reining in private equity in the next Congress, whether in hospitals, mobile home communities, residential care facilities, or other industries."
- 同样值得注意的是，在一些此类议题上，沃伦有共和党盟友。她曾与参议员乔什·霍利（共和党-密苏里州）合作推动一项停滞的医疗法案，该法案获得了参议院候选人詹姆斯·塔拉里科的更多支持。
• It's also worth noting that Warren has Republican allies when it comes to some of these issues, having worked with Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) on a stalled health bill that has been more endorsed by Senate candidate James Talarico. The bottom line:
底线：私募股权在击退可能损害其利润的联邦立法方面有着非常成功的记录。值得关注的是，过去是否会成为先例。
Private equity has a very successful track record in beating back federal legislation that could hurt its bottom line. What to watch is if past proves to be precedent.