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President's Agenda
Aired February 26, 2004 - 11:34 ET
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HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: President Bush on the road today, talking up the economy and raising money for his re-election campaign. The White House is also coping with concerns raised by Alan Greenspan's comments on Social Security.
CNN's Kathleen Koch is traveling with the president. She joins us now from Louisville, Kentucky -- Kathleen.
KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Heidi.
Well, It's not clear if the president is going to be bringing up those comments at all today. He arrived here in Louisville, Kentucky just over an hour ago. He has found a very welcome and friendly audience at this company that he has come to visit, where he is touting his economic program and how well it is working, he says nationwide. Here in Louisville, he's visiting with a family-owned business. He wrapped up his comments here a few minutes ago. This business makes plastic pipe product. They've said they've seen both sales and employment here go up 50 percent over the last two years.
Now President Bush insists that such success stories will continue to grow, as long as his tax cuts don't expire.
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GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: To make the tax cuts that are set to expire permanent, I would like Congress to make all tax cuts permanent. But the very minimum, the very minimum, they need to listen to the stories up here on the stage and make those set to expire in 2005 permanent. For the sake of our economy, for the sake of American families, for the sake of small business owners, and for the sake of job creation, the tax cuts need to be permanent.
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KOCH: Now, Kentucky Democrats point out that while this business that the president is visiting today may be thriving that they believe the president overall has failed to create jobs in the state. Some 87,000 jobs have disappeared basically during the Bush presidency. Now the president, when he leaves here, will be later on flying to North Carolina. But before that, he'll be making a stop at a GOP fund-raiser, which is expected to add about $1 million to his campaign re-election war chest -- Heidi.
COLLINS: All right, Kathleen Koch, live from Louisville, Kentucky, thanks so much.
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Aired February 26, 2004 - 11:34 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: President Bush on the road today, talking up the economy and raising money for his re-election campaign. The White House is also coping with concerns raised by Alan Greenspan's comments on Social Security.
CNN's Kathleen Koch is traveling with the president. She joins us now from Louisville, Kentucky -- Kathleen.
KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Heidi.
Well, It's not clear if the president is going to be bringing up those comments at all today. He arrived here in Louisville, Kentucky just over an hour ago. He has found a very welcome and friendly audience at this company that he has come to visit, where he is touting his economic program and how well it is working, he says nationwide. Here in Louisville, he's visiting with a family-owned business. He wrapped up his comments here a few minutes ago. This business makes plastic pipe product. They've said they've seen both sales and employment here go up 50 percent over the last two years.
Now President Bush insists that such success stories will continue to grow, as long as his tax cuts don't expire.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: To make the tax cuts that are set to expire permanent, I would like Congress to make all tax cuts permanent. But the very minimum, the very minimum, they need to listen to the stories up here on the stage and make those set to expire in 2005 permanent. For the sake of our economy, for the sake of American families, for the sake of small business owners, and for the sake of job creation, the tax cuts need to be permanent.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
KOCH: Now, Kentucky Democrats point out that while this business that the president is visiting today may be thriving that they believe the president overall has failed to create jobs in the state. Some 87,000 jobs have disappeared basically during the Bush presidency. Now the president, when he leaves here, will be later on flying to North Carolina. But before that, he'll be making a stop at a GOP fund-raiser, which is expected to add about $1 million to his campaign re-election war chest -- Heidi.
COLLINS: All right, Kathleen Koch, live from Louisville, Kentucky, thanks so much.
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