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CHICAGO ? Business leaders are growing exasperated with Washington. And they say the dysfunction in the political system is holding them back from hiring and investing.

A new sort of risk to growth is emerging, not from the kind of economic forces that led to the recent recession but from elected officials? inability to agree on how to deal with them. This angst in the executive suite is reflected in this month?s uptick in lobbying by business groups eager to see a deal on the federal debt ceiling, in surveys showing falling confidence among business leaders ? and, in the American heartland, by the deepening frustrations of corporate chiefs.

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