Senate Balks at Curbing Debate on Financial Overhaul Bill

WASHINGTON, DC - May 19: At left, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., huddles with angry and frustrated fellow Democrats before a news conference after their bid to invoke cloture failed on financial overhaul legislation, slowing the measureÕs progress toward passage. With him are Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., Senate Banking Chairman Christopher J. Dodd, D-Conn., Sen. Bernard Sanders, I-Vt., and Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio. Although Maine Republicans Susan Collins and Olympia J. Snowe voted to invoke cloture on the bill (S 3217), Democrats Russ Feingold of Wisconsin and Maria Cantwell of Washington split from their party and voted Òno.Ó The final vote was 57-42, shy of the 60 needed to limit debate on the substitute amendment to the package. (Photo by Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images)