The derivatives bill will become part of the financial reform legislation winding its way through the Senate, and some believe the swaps desk provision will be used as a bargaining chip as the full Senate argues over what issues have yet to be ironed out.

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That makes it look like Lewis used a MAC clause as a bargaining chip to get more federal assistance, Kucinich said.

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The group listened intently as one of the executives launched into an unflattering tale of how the employee had used the executive's perfectly good job offer as a bargaining chip for a fat buyback.

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