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WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman John B. Larson (CT-01) introduced H.R. 12, President Obama's American Jobs Act. The text of the bill is attached.

Larson released the following statement:

"The President has drafted a plan that is focused on what the 14 million Americans who are out of work know they need – the simple dignity of a job. He deserves a vote on his plan in as timely a fashion as possible because those 14 million Americans can't wait the 14 months until the next election for this to be resolved."

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WASHINGTON – Congressman John B. Larson (CT-01) joined with a bipartisan majority of the House this week to renew the Children's Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (CHGME) program.

The program, passed and signed into law in 1999, provides financial support to children's hospitals that provide graduate level residency programs. The program helps hospitals offset costs of resident stipends, salaries, faculty salaries, overhead and other training-related costs.

HARTFORD – Congressman John B. Larson (CT-01) issued the following statement today on the end of the U.S. Military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy: "I am very pleased to see ‘Don't Ask, Don't Tell' officially end today. For too long the policy has weakened our national security and undermined our principles as a country. "We would not have reached this point without the leadership of Senator Joe Lieberman.

WASHINGTON -- Congressman John B. Larson (CT-01) is an original co-sponsor of a bill introduced this week that will provide relief to farmers who have been negatively affected by Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee.

HARTFORD - Congressman John B. Larson (CT-01) issued the following statement on the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks:

"September 11, 2001 is to a whole generation what December 7, 1941 was to an earlier generation. Ten years later what must be underscored is how during the days, weeks and months following the attack we came together as a nation.

"It was very heartening today to see President Obama and President Bush together. The aftermath of the 9/11 attacks was President Bush's finest hour - an hour that saw us put labels behind us and come together.

HARTFORD – Congressman John B. Larson (CT-01) issued the following statement following President Barack Obama's speech on jobs tonight:

"President Obama is absolutely right. It's time for Congress to act and act now.

"There was nothing in the President's speech tonight that Congress could not consider tomorrow.

"Frankly, the American people need jobs and can't wait."

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WASHINGTON – House Democratic Caucus Chairman John Larson (CT) introduced nonpartisan legislation today intended to give the nation’s top priority – job creation and economic growth – the same path forward as deficit reduction in Congress.