FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 11, 2004

LARSON SIGNS PETITION TO FORCE GOP LEADERSHIP TO ALLOW VOTE ON BILL BOOSTING U.S. MANUFACTURING

WASHINGTON, D.C.- U.S. Congressman John B. Larson (CT-1) today signed a discharge petition designed to bring legislation that would protect U.S. manufacturing jobs to the House floor for a vote. A discharge petition is a legislative procedure to force the House Leadership to bring a bill to the floor. It requires the signatures of a majority - 218 - of House members.

The Jobs Protection Act, H.R. 1769, would repeal the U.S.