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TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1993

GOVERNOR'S PRESS CONFERENCE OUTSIDE CAPITOL BUILDING

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GOVERNOR PATTEN: I have had good meetings this

afternoon with Senator Baucus and Representative Rostenkowski, the chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee, who is obviously a crucial player in this debate, and has been a consistent supporter of MF'N

renewal.

He is one of the most important congressional figures, so I much valued my discussion with him and his position on the issues hasn't changed at all over the last year, I'm pleased to say, nor, I suspect, has

Representative Pelosi's.

MS. TIDWELL: You were talking to us about some

of the other measures that America could use. What's that

301? Does that look like an issue that is going to be come up again, and if it does, what do you think Congress

will do?

GOVERNOR PATTEN:

Nobody's mentioned 301 to me.

There are, I think, three different versions of 301. I

think I'm right in saying that one of those versions of

301 has been suggested by one or two Senators as an add-

on to the provisions for a fast track authority for the

Uruguay Round, but it hasn't featured as an issue in my

discussions on the whole.

/MR. CHUGANI:

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