[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 61 (Monday, May 6, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S4723]
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                       THE VERY BAD DEBT BOXSCORE

  Mr. HELMS. Mr. President, the awesome $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 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 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, May 3, the exact 
Federal debt stood at $5,089,270,954,342.92 or $19,220.40 per man, 
woman, child on a per capita basis.

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