[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 38 (Tuesday, March 19, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S2324]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         THE BAD DEBT BOXSCORE

  Mr. HELMS. Mr. President, the $5 trillion Federal debt stands today 
as an increasingly grotesque parallel to the energizer bunny on 
television that keeps moving and moving and moving--precisely in the 
same manner, and to the same extent, that President Clinton is allowing 
the Federal debt to keep going up and up into the stratosphere.
  Politicians like to talk good games--and ``talk'' is the operative 
word--about cutting the Federal spending and thereby bringing the 
Federal debt under control. But watch how they vote on the big-spending 
bills.
  Mr. President, at the close of business yesterday, March 18, the 
Federal debt stood at $5,055,609,537,686.31, an average per capita debt 
of $19,116.82 for every man, woman, and child in America.

                          ____________________