[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 52 (Monday, April 22, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S3788]
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                         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--``talk'' is the 
operative word here--about cutting the 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 Friday, April 19, 1996, 
the exact Federal debt stood at $5,100,053,596,414.66 or $19,268.51 per 
man, woman, and child on a per capita basis.

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