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THE WHITE HOUSE

                  Office of the Press Secretary
                      (St. Louis, Missouri)
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For Immediate Release                          June 24, 1994

                     REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
               TO THE POOL ON TOUR OF NEIGHBORHOOD

                             Fox Park
                       St. Louis, Missouri

12:50 P.M. CDT

Q Speaking of the crime bill, Mr. President, do you know where it stands right now? Can you give us a state of play?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, I met earlier this week with Senator Biden and Chairman Brooks, and we talked about it. We think that the essential elements are intact. We believe that it will come out with 100,000 police, with three strikes and you're out, with prevention programs, with summer jobs for the kids and midnight basketball, the after-school programs, with the assault weapons ban.

And they're still working on some of the other issues. I expect that the conference committee will come out with it reasonably soon and I think it will go through both Houses.

Q One of the hangups, sir, is racial justice. Have you decided where you come down on that position yet?

THE PRESIDENT: Wait and see what the conference committee does. They asked me to give them a few more days to work on it, and we're going to see what they --

Q Would it help if you came out with --

THE PRESIDENT: -- know what's going on -- the main thing we don't want to do is to change the subject. The subject is how to get the crime rate down, how to get the police out, how to get the assault weapons -- the police on the street, the assault weapons ban into law, how to get the prevention funds out here, how to get the three strikes and you're out law out. And I think that they're working on it.

I believe everybody in the Congress is going to work on it in good faith and I think we'll have a --

Q Is racial justice getting away?

Q Thank you. Thank you.

Q He couldn't hear my question over your shouting. (Laughter.)

END12:52 P.M. CDT