CBS Evening News - 1995-01-05
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[0:03] This is the CBS Evening News
[0:06] with Dan Rather in Washington and Connie
[0:10] Chung in New York.
[0:12] >> Good evening. Here on Capitol Hill,
[0:14] Washington's new Republican power
[0:16] brokers fanned out, dug in, and got down
[0:18] to business. Today, the Senate picked up
[0:20] where the House left off. The talk was
[0:23] of consiliation. The agenda remains the
[0:26] same. A sharp shift to the right,
[0:29] including rolling back, even dismantling
[0:32] government programs established over the
[0:34] last 50 years. Our coverage begins with
[0:36] chief Washington correspondent Bob
[0:38] Schiffer.
[0:40] >> It was nearly 2:30 this morning when
[0:42] they finally called it quits. Even the
[0:44] new speaker admitted he'd begun to
[0:46] droop. And before it ended, Democrats
[0:48] had lost all sense of time.
[0:50] >> What purpose does the gentleman rise?
[0:52] >> I'm just want to know what day it is. We
[0:53] were told we had to do
[0:54] >> I tell the gentleman from Massachusetts
[0:56] that is not a parliamentary inquiry.
[1:00] >> But a few hours sleep did wonders for
[1:02] everyone and by midm morning the
[1:03] Republicans were back on fast forward.
[1:06] The Senate Judiciary Committee opened
[1:07] hearings on a proposed balance budget
[1:09] amendment. Two Republican senators
[1:12] introduced line item veto legislation.
[1:15] These Republicans laid out a plan for
[1:17] term limits on legislators. These
[1:19] Republicans unveiled a plan to stop
[1:22] Congress from creating programs the
[1:24] states must pay for. And these
[1:26] Republicans vowed to hold back
[1:28] government regulations. The occasional
[1:30] Democrat did appear when an unused
[1:33] microphone could be found. This group
[1:35] proposed their own version