[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 106 (Tuesday, June 27, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Pages S9173-S9174]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


          IS CONGRESS IRRESPONSIBLE? THE VOTERS HAVE SAID YES

  Mr. HELMS. Mr. President, the impression simply will not go away: The 


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existing $4.8 trillion Federal debt is a sort of grotesque parallel to 
the engerizer bunny that appears and appears and appears on 
television--the same way that the Federal debt keeps going and going 
and going--up, of course, always to the added burdens on the American 
taxpayers.
  So many politicians talk a good game--and talk is the operative 
word--about reducing the Federal deficit and bringing the Federal debt 
under control.
  In any event, Mr. President, as of yesterday, Monday, June 26, at the 
close of business, the total Federal debt stood--down to the penny--at 
exactly $4,889,052,929,226.24 or $18,558.93 per man, woman, child on a 
per capita basis. Res ipsa loquitur.


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