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From @lex-luthor.ai.mit.edu:hes@REAGAN.AI.MIT.EDU Wed May 26 20:01:29 1993
Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 12:57-0400
From: The White House <75300.3115@compuserve.com>
To: Clinton-News-Distribution@campaign92.org,
Subject: President's Remarks at Black Caucus Breakfast Photo Op
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
______________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release May 26, 1993
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
IN PHOTO OPPORTUNITY AT BLACK CAUCUS BREAKFAST
The Old Family Dining Room
8:52 A.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Let me say, what I'm trying to do is
pass this program in the House. I do one step at a time. I think
it's clearly, of all the things that have been presented, the fairest
program. It has significant budget cuts, reduces the size of the
federal government by 150,000, leaves some room for investment, 74
percent of the tax is paid by six percent of the people. It's a fair
program.
It will cost the average person a dollar a month next
year, $7.00 a month the year after, $15 a month the year after for a
family. And it exempts people of incomes under $30,000. It is a
fair, balanced program. I'm going to try and pass it.
Q Sir, what are you telling members of Congress who
are worried that they could lose their seats because of some of the
tougher elements of this package?
THE PRESIDENT: That all the evidence shows that the
more people know about the details of the package, the more likely
they are to support it. And that if it becomes a rhetorical battle
where anyone says that it's tax and spend, well, who's for that?
Nobody's for that. But the American people are for bringing this
deficit down. They are for investing in jobs and technology. They
are for a fairer tax system that asks everyone to pay their fair
share. And they are for a system that moves people from welfare to
work.
This program does all those things. It is a very good
program. There is no evidence that once people know the facts that
they will do that.
Q What are you going to do to make sure they know the
facts? Are you going to go on nationwide radio and TV before the
House votes?
THE PRESIDENT: I don't know that that is possible or
that it will be done before the House votes. But what I have told
them is that the day that the people had the most detailed knowledge
of this plan was February 17th. That's when people -- because I went
through the whole thing, chapter and verse. So nothing was hidden
from the American people. It was all given out.
What has happened since then is -- you know, there's a
lot of static and back-and-forth. And the President can't go on
television every night for that length of time, but that is clear
evidence that the more people know about it the more likely they are
to support it.
Just today I'm going to see some more of the business
executives who will pay more in this plan who have supported this.
Yesterday, Mr. Rostenkowski listed 50 major companies who are
supporting the program. We have small business people all over
America who are supporting the program -- realtors and others,
consumer groups. So the people who know more about the program, the
more you know about it the more likely you are to be for it.
Q But isn't energy the hang-up? Mr. President, isn't
energy the hang-up?
THE PRESIDENT: It is a big hang-up. And we're working
--
Q And how about Boren? Are you going to be able to
work with him?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I hope so. We're working through
it. I think that it is now apparent to everyone that there are only
two plans on the table in the Senate and that ours is far fairer and
better for the economy. I mean, the other plan reduces the tax on --
for the oil interest in Oklahoma and elsewhere, but it does it at the
expense of putting a $40 billion burden on Social Security recipients
and lower-income working people just above the poverty line. It also
would shift massive health costs away from the government on to
private employers and employees. I don't think they're for that.
So as you -- now that we've got an alternative out
there, it shows you that our plan is sound and balanced. We're just
going to keep working at it.
END 8:57 A.M. EDT