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Democrats are looking to turn up the heat on several top GOP Senate candidates over their party's efforts to roll back the financial regulatory reform law.

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) pressured Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.), Rep. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) and Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) -- all of whom are running for Senate in 2012 -- to say whether or not they will support GOP proposals to dismantle the Wall Street reform law.

{mosads}"Scott Brown’s voting record makes him look like a guy who is trying to be senator of Wall Street â€" not Massachusetts,” DSCC spokesman Matt Canter said in a release. "Bay Staters are asking will Scott Brown once again stand with the Republican establishment in Washington and repeal Wall Street reform?"

The move is a signal that Democrats are betting the Republican roll back effort could be an effective political cudgel on the campaign trail. 

Brown, who won the seat of the late! Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) in a 2010 special election, is one of the Democrats' top targets for the 2012 cycle. But the Massachusetts Republican could be in a better position to defend himself against the attacks, considering he broke with his party and voted for the Wall Street bill last July. 

Only three House Republicans voted for the final version of the financial overhaul. Heller and Flake, who are running for two seats Democrats are looking to flip from Republican control, voted against it.

Unlike their push to repeal the healthcare law, Republicans have been much more cautious in attempting to take apart the financial law, proposing a series of targeted changes.

GOP lawmakers have said they are doing so not to disrupt financial markets, but Democrats said their opponents' strategy is due to the fact they know the law is popular.

“They don’t want to take it on head on,” Rep. Barney Frank Frank (D-Mass.), a chief ! sponsor of the law, told The Hill. “It’s too popular.”