NU Online News Service, July 12, 3:50 p.m. EDT

Senate Democrats inched closer toward passage of financial services reform legislation today when Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., said he would vote for the measure.

However, a spokesman for Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., Senate majority leader, said that even with support from Sen. Brown, Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, they remain one short of clearing a key procedural hurdle.

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