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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
_____________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release June 8, 1993
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
IN PHOTO OPPORTUNITY WITH BIPARTISAN CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP
Cabinet Room
9:35 A.M. EDT
Q Mr. President, the Republicans have said they won't
accept a plan with any taxes. How are you going to bridge that gap
with Bob Dole?
THE PRESIDENT: I don't know what the bridge will be.
Let me just say this, I think it's very important that we move this
promptly as possible to pass the economic plan. After the House
acted, long-term interest rates dropped again. We now have a seven-
year high in housing sales, unemployment below 7 percent -- it's the
first time in a year-and-a-half -- 755,000 new jobs since January.
And that's because there's a serious attempt to reduce this deficit
through a combination of cuts and tax increases, almost all of which
come on wealthier individuals. So I think we just need to move
forward.
There will be some changes in the Senate, and that is
fine. Then we just need to hold to the principles -- there ought to
be $500 billion in deficit reduction; it ought to be in a trust fund
so that neither the taxes nor the spending cuts can be diverted; and
it ought to be -- the tax burden ought to be progressive, falling
largely on the wealthiest Americans; and we ought to keep the
incentives for private sector growth in there. We're moving from
work -- from welfare to work for investing in the depressed areas of
the country for starting small businesses.
Those are the principles that I have. And the energy
tax ought to encourage conservation and the use of cleaner fuels.
Those are the things that I think ought to be done. We'll just see
what happens.
Q Does it have to include -- does it have to be a BTU
tax, or can you find another energy --
THE PRESIDENT: I have delegated to -- I don't want to
get into the name game here. I'm interested in the principles of the
program: deficit reduction, lower interest rates, job growth. We've
got job growth coming back into this economy now, and I think we have
to continue to do what produces it, which is lower interest rates.
The lower interest rates are causing people to refinance all their
debt and putting it back into the economy. And that's the thing I'm
interested in.
We'll just see -- Secretary Bentsen and Mr. Panetta are
representing the administration in the conversations with the Senate.
And we'll just see what comes out of it.
Q Do you think you can start over with Bob Dole --
after all the bad blood?
THE PRESIDENT: I like -- I like Senator Dole. I always
have. Besides that, he knows more jokes than I do, and I resent it
-- get him to share some with you.
END9:38 A.M. EDT