But as a practical matter, lawmakers are unlikely to want to go down the regulate-subsidize-mandate road again.

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Expect them to bog down quickly on how to regulate of the multitrillion-dollar market for OTC derivatives, which operate outside the direct reach of regulators and are partly to blame for the financial crisis having felled American International Group, one of the largest U.S. financial companies, and Lehman Brothers.

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