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THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release July 20, 1993

                       REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
      IN MEETING WITH SENATOR MOYNIHAN AND CHAIRMAN ROSTENKOWSKI
             
                        Old Family Dining Room

12:41 P.M. EDT

Q Mr. President, do you think that Chairman Rostenkowski's legal problems will have any effect on the budget process?

THE PRESIDENT: No. We've got a lot of work to do. Chairman Rostenkowski's done a great job with this budget so far, and we've worked very closely together. And we're going to work today.

I don't know anything about the rest of it. I just know that we're going to work. That's what we all got hired to do and we're going to do our job.

Q Are you ready to give up on an energy tax?

THE PRESIDENT: No.

Q Does an energy tax have to be part of the program? There's a lot of move on Capitol Hill against it.

THE PRESIDENT: I know it. But if you look at all the numbers it's hard to get there without it. So, I think we ought to --

THE PRESS: Thank you.

END12:46 P.M. EDT