For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
June 6, 2001
Press Briefing by Ari Fleischer
Aboard Air Force One
En Route Bedford City, Virginia
11:18 A.M. EDT
MR. FLEISCHER: (in progress) --
almost entirely on a tribute to those who died on D-Day. It
will be a real -- speech. It will be -- there will be a
short reference to transatlantic ties. That will be part of
the speech that is in honor to those who died.
Q What about the story
this morning? You started to mention the emphasis on global warming.
MR. FLEISCHER: We'll let you know,
Ann, if there is anything.
Q -- there was a meeting
yesterday.
MR. FLEISCHER: The working group is working on
-- recommendations. Some form or another --
Q Any other words from
the President on Europe?
MR. FLEISCHER: -- newsmaking
speech.
Q Congratulations on
getting her to brief on camera and on the record. On the
record, that's appreciated.
Q What are the venues
when we get in -- anything on Thursday or Friday -- in
Europe? Or do you think it may be the radio address?
MR. FLEISCHER: No, it would be
Monday if there's anything to be -- well, I'll get to that on
week-ahead time. That's just to be determined.
Q That event on Friday
morning in Des Moines, is that a follow-up to the Thursday signing?
MR. FLEISCHER: Friday in Iowa, he's
going there for two reasons. One is it was in Iowa where he
originally announced his tax proposal, in late 1999. So the
President thinks it's appropriate to go back to the place where it all
began. Two, it will be on a farm where he talked about
abolishing the death taxes during the Iowa caucuses, and now that he
has abolished the death tax, the legislation he will sign abolishes the
death tax, he wants to return to a farm that will be affected.
Q Is he going to
mention the fact that it's abolished and that it's sunsetted?
MR. FLEISCHER: Well, actually, I
was just reading something we talked about this morning -- if you look
at a lot of the projections for what the tax cut is going to do for the
economy, it's noteful now that -- the assumption is they will be
permanent, and that's a pretty safe assumption. I think it's going to
be hard for whoever is in office to raise taxes on the American people,
which is what you would be doing. It would be a tax
hike. So there's a safe assumption that it will be
permanent. The President certainly hopes so.
It's just an arcane rule under the Emergency
Deficit Reduction Act, that says it's not permanent. You
know, spending increases are permanent. They don't stop at 10
years. Only tax cuts, under the Emergency Deficit Reduction
Act. That's arcane. It's a quirk and it shouldn't
exist.
That is all? All right.
END 11:21 A.M. EDT
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