roundtable: 1995-06-28 Letters to Senate leader and House Speaker on Budget (fwd)

roundtable: 1995-06-28 Letters to Senate leader and House Speaker on Budget (fwd)

1995-06-28 Letters to Senate leader and House Speaker on Budget (fwd)

Vigdor Schreibman - FINS (fins@access.digex.net)
Thu, 29 Jun 1995 07:33:15 -0400 (EDT) 

Date: Thu, 29 Jun 1995 07:33:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access.digex.net>
To: tp roundtable - messages <roundtable@cni.org>
Subject: 1995-06-28 Letters to Senate leader and House Speaker on Budget (fwd)
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The President has issued a long awaited friendly challenge to the right. 
He should have our support.  vs

Vigdor Schreibman
<fins@access.digex.net>


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 20:33-0400
From: The White House <Publications-Admin@WhiteHouse.Gov>
To: Public-Distribution@clinton.ai.mit.edu
Subject: 1995-06-28 Letters to Senate leader and House Speaker on Budget





                            THE WHITE HOUSE

                     Office of the Press Secretary

________________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release                                      June 28, 1995



  LETTERS FROM THE PRESIDENT TO SENATE MAJORITY LEADER ROBERT DOLE AND

		      HOUSE SPEAKER NEWT GINGRICH


   The following letters from the President on balancing the federal
budget were sent earlier today to Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole and
House Speaker Newt Gingrich:

The White House
Washington
June 28, 1995


Dear Mr. Speaker:

   We share the goal of balancing the federal budget, and I look forward
to working with you on this important matter.

   But as we work together to reach our shared goal, we must be sure that
we do so the right way -- the way that will raise the e standards of
living for average Americans.

   My plan to balance the budget over 10 years will help raise average
living standards by cutting unnecessary spending while investing in
education and training, targeting tax relief to middle-income Americans,
and taking incremental but serious steps towards health care reform.  By
contrast, the conference agreement cuts too deeply into Medicare and
Medicaid and cuts education and training both to pay for a tax cut that
is too large for too many who don't need it, and to meet the 7 year time
frame.

   Though I am determined to work with you to balance the budget, I
cannot accept legislation that will threaten the living standards of
American families.

   I hope we can work together and avoid a situation in which I would
have no choice but to use my veto authority broadly.  The American
people want us to work together to balance the budget and to do it the
right way.  I am ready to do that.


   Sincerely,

   /s/ Bill Clinton

   The Honorable Newt Gingrich
   Speaker of the House of Representatives
   Washington, D.C. 20515

    ------

The White House
Washington
June 28, 1995

Dear Mr. Leader:

   We share the goal of balancing the federal budget, and I look forward
to working with you on this important matter.

   But as we work together to reach our shared goal, we must ensure that
we do so the right way -- the way that will raise the standards of
living for average Americans.

   My plan to balance the budget over 10 years will help raise average
living standards by cutting unnecessary spending while investing in
education and training, targeting tax relief to middle-income Americans,
and taking incremental but serious steps toward health care reform.  By
contrast, the conference agreement cuts too deeply into Medicare and
Medicaid and cuts education and training both to pay for a tax cut that
is too large for too many who don't need it, and to meet the 7 year time
frame.

   Though I am determined to work with you to balance the budget, I
cannot accept legislation that will threaten the living standards of
American families.

   I hope we can work together and avoid a situation in which I would
have no choice but to use my veto authority broadly.  The American
people want us to work together to balance the budget and to do it the
right way.  I am ready to do that.

   Sincerely,

   /s/ Bill Clinton

   The Honorable Bob Dole
   Majority Leader
   United States Senate
   Washington, D.C. 20510

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