NBC Nightly News - 1995-12-18
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[0:02] The great government shutdown again.
[0:04] Closed monuments. Anxiety in the stock
[0:06] market which is off more than 100
[0:07] points. In Bosnia, the skies clear just
[0:10] enough for troops to find the landing
[0:12] zone. The buildup heats up. NBC News in
[0:15] depth tonight. Organ transplant
[0:16] desperation. The long wait, then no
[0:19] transplant. Why? On Healthw Watch
[0:22] tonight, a breakthrough that could
[0:23] eliminate ulcers as a problem forever.
[0:28] From NBC News, this is NBC Nightly News
[0:32] with Tom Bro.
[0:34] >> Good evening. Just in time for the
[0:36] holidays, the president and Congress
[0:39] teamed up to present the nation with the
[0:40] political equivalent of a hole in the
[0:42] Christmas stocking. The government shut
[0:45] down again because the two sides cannot
[0:47] agree on a seven-year plan to balance
[0:49] the budget. And this time, nervous
[0:51] investors hit the stock market hard. We
[0:54] begin tonight with NBC's Lisa Myers.
[0:57] Like a recurring bad dream, more than a
[0:59] quarter million federal workers reported
[1:01] for work only to be sent home again for
[1:03] the second time in a month. And once
[1:06] again, national tourist attractions
[1:08] normally swarming with visitors were
[1:10] like ghost towns. And also again,
[1:13] everyone was playing the blame game.
[1:15] >> The president is posturing for political
[1:17] advantage in 1996.
[1:19] >> It is wrong for the Congress to shut the
[1:21] government down just to make a political
[1:23] point the week before Christmas. But the
[1:26] president was not above scoring some
[1:28] political points himself. Surrounded by
[1:30] children, he vetoed two bills that would
[1:32] have put many federal workers back to
[1:34] work, sayin