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Senate Democrats failed to muster enough votes Monday to take up Wall Street reform, with a key Democrat voting with Republicans against the push to get the debate started.

Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., voted against a proposal to officially start debating the Wall Street reform legislation before other lawmakers on a Senate Banking panel negotiate a deal.

That move made it impossible for Democrats to get 60 votes to push the legislation forward to be debated.

The official vote was 57-41 in favor of moving forward. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., switched his vote from "yes" to "no," in a procedural move that allows him, under the Senate rules, to bring the bill up again for another vote. An aide to Reid said late Monday that the vote will take place Wednesday.

Two GOP senators, Christopher Bond of Missouri and Robert Bennett of Utah, did not vote.

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