More than 100 chief executives of US textile companies will descend on Washington today to urge members of Congress to press for an extension of international quotas to protect US textile producers.

The lobbying effort, industry officials say, is the largest since 1990, when the industry was urging passage of a bill that would have guaranteed US companies a fixed share of the US textile and clothing markets. The bill was passed by Congress but vetoed by the then president, George H.W.Bush.