[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 30 (Thursday, March 7, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S1634]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         THE BAD DEBT BOXSCORE

  Mr. HELMS. Mr. President, the impression will not go away: The $5 
trillion Federal debt stands today as an increasingly grotesque 
parallel to the energizer bunny that keeps moving and moving and moving 
on television--precisely in the same manner and to the same extent that 
the President is allowing the Federal debt to keep going up and up and 
up into the stratosphere.
  A lot of politicians like to talk a good game--and talk is the 
operative word--about cutting Federal spending and thereby bringing the 
Federal debt under control. But watch how they vote on spending bills.
  Mr. President, as of the close of business yesterday, March 6, the 
exact Federal debt stood at $5,016,347,467,901.57 or $19,040.48 per 
every man, woman, and child in America on a per capita basis.

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