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WASHINGTON - More than 20 business groups have recently urged the exclusion of a bill on China's currency policy from a package of manufacturing bills that lawmakers will start voting on this week.
The Currency Reform for Fair Trade Act, also known as the Ryan-Murphy Bill, "will not bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States," the business groups said in a letter sent to House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer.
"Instead, the bill will likely result in the loss of jobs and market share in many competitive US agricultural, manufacturing and service i

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