Financial Reform Gets to 60 Votes

Financial reform is ready at last: Democrats have the 60 votes needed to pass the financial-regulation overhaul after Republican Senators Scott Brown (MA), Susan Collins (ME) and Olympia Snowe (ME) agreed to break their party’s filibuster and vote for the bill. Unless Republicans agree to expedite the process, the bill won’t be ready for a final vote until Thursday, leaving plenty of time for Chuck Grassley (R-IA), who voted for the original bill in May, to sign up for the measure.