World News Tonight (ABC) - 1995-12-07
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[0:00] Tory.
[0:04] The president's plan to balance the
[0:06] budget in 7 years is now on the table in
[0:09] Washington.
[0:10] Hundreds of people are arrested today in
[0:12] a telephone scam all across the country
[0:14] that victimized the elderly.
[0:16] And the extraordinary voyage of the
[0:18] spaceship Galileo.
[0:22] From ABC, this is World News Tonight
[0:26] with Peter Jennings. Good evening. We
[0:27] begin in Washington tonight where the
[0:29] two most important politicians in the
[0:30] country are having a little difficulty
[0:32] focusing on business. The president and
[0:34] the speaker of the house still need to
[0:35] come to some agreement and soon on how
[0:38] to balance the federal budget in 7
[0:40] years. But the president is somewhat
[0:42] distracted by Bosnia and the speaker,
[0:44] Mr. Gingrich, has had his focus pulled
[0:47] by a decision of the House Ethics
[0:49] Committee that there should be a special
[0:51] counsel to investigate him. Which is not
[0:53] to say that the budget battle does not
[0:55] rage. First, here's our White House
[0:57] correspondent, Brit Hume.
[1:01] During a meeting with members of
[1:02] Congress on Bosnia, the president
[1:04] commented briefly on his third budget
[1:06] plan of the year introduced today. It's
[1:08] mainstream and it's good and
[1:11] it's a good place to start discussions
[1:13] and I think that's the attitude they
[1:14] ought to take and if they have a I've
[1:16] made a proposal now I'd like to see what
[1:17] theirs is. The new Clinton plan amends
[1:20] but does not drastically change the plan
[1:22] he announced in June. It contains, for
[1:24] example, no added cuts in the growth of
[1:26] either Medicare or Medicaid, the two
[1:29] biggest items in dispute. There is no
[1:31] cha