Clinton Plans News Conference
President Clinton plans to hold a news conference at 11 a.m. PST today as part of his effort to get Congress moving on gun control, Medicare, the minimum wage and other issues ripe for this election year, the White House said Tuesday.
“It’s time for Congress to get to work,” White House spokesman Joe Lockhart said. “I think the president will be sending a strong message that we can get a lot done this year and we’ve got to get started soon.”
Clinton and congressional Democrats hope to use election-year politics to press Republicans to compromise or risk handing Democrats issues for the fall campaign, Lockhart said.
After the news conference, his second of the year, Clinton is going on a fund-raising trip to South Carolina and New York.
In his Feb. 16 news conference, he took questions about the presidential campaign with relish, even as he said he was trying to stay above the day-to-day political fray in his final year in office.
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