Brown and Snowe Deliver for Reid

GOP Moderates Give Democrats Crucial Votes to Clear Financial Reform Bill

• By John Stanton
• Roll Call Staff
• July 13, 2010, Midnight

Moderate Republican Sens. Scott Brown (Mass.) and Olympia Snowe (Maine) handed a huge victory Monday to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and President Barack Obama, announcing they would back a historic financial regulatory overhaul bill.