From the Washington Post:

The Senate easily passed a $15 billion jobs bill on Wednesday morning amid hope that the measure could provide a blueprint for other items on President Obama’s agenda.
The measure passed 70 to 28, with 13 Republicans joining 57 Democrats in support of the package. One Democrat, Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, voted against it.

Conference committee should be interesting, considering the House jobs bill is ten times larger at $154 billion.

Sen. Scott Brown (R., Mass.) defended crossing party lines and voting with the Democrats on cloture, but said that he reserved the right to vote against a conference bill that included pork.

From a written statement:

“We need to put partisanship aside to put people back to work. This jobs bill is far from perfect, and ideally would include deeper and broader tax cuts. I supported this measure because it does contain some tax relief that will help Massachusetts businesses put people back to work. Right now, this is a tax-cutting bill. But if it comes back to the Senate full of pork, waste, fraud and abuse, I reserve the right to vote against it.”