Without announcement or fanfare, the Connecticut Democrat -- chairman of the Senate banking committee and chief architect of the pending legislation -- was quietly trying to resolve one of the few remaining disputes that could impede the passage of the landmark bill: a disagreement over financial instruments called derivatives that has sent shudders through Wall Street.
At issue was a single section a third of the way through the massive 1,400-page bill that could force a handful of the nation's biggest banks to spin off their billion-dollar businesses in trading derivatives.
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