By Rachelle Younglai and Kevin Drawbaugh
U.S. Democrats on Tuesday went back to the drawing board as they considered stripping out a controversial tax from their landmark financial-reform bill in order to win the swing votes needed to pass it through Congress.
With crucial Republican moderates threatening to withdraw their support, Democrats were weighing alternative ways to fund the most sweeping rewrite of the Wall Street rulebook since the 1930s.
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