MORE:3 Republican Senators And Specter Help Move Financial Regulatory Reform Forward

Massachusetts Republican Senator Scott Brown, together with Republican Senators Susan Collins and Olympia J. Snowe from Maine, joined 57 Democratic Senators - including Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, who lost the Democratic nomination on Tuesday - to stop debate and allow the whole Senate to vote on the financial regulatory reform bill. Two Democratic Senators, Maria Cantwell of Washington and Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, voted no.