Under a deal with Senate Democrats, Senator-Elect Scott Brown was to be sworn in on February 11, but his team now wants to push his seating up on concerns that the Senate has scheduled a number of controversial votes between now and then.

“While Sen.-elect Brown had tentatively planned to be sworn into office on Feb. 11, he has been advised that there are a number of votes scheduled prior to that date,” [campaign lawyer Dan] Winslow wrote in the letter [to Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick]. “For that reason, he wants certification to occur immediately. As he is a duly elected U.S. Senator from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts he is entitled to be seated now.”

The final tallies are in, but Patrick and his councilors was not available to certify them today, citing a number of previous commitments. The governor intends to certify the results tomorrow, at which point they could be brought to the secretary of the Senate and make Brown available for immediate seating.

The key vote is reportedly on Craig Becker, an appointee to the National Labor Relations Board that Senate Republicans feel is too pro-labor.

Marc Ambinder tweets that a spokesman for Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) said that if Brown wants to be sworn-in tomorrow, “it’s fine” by the majority.