[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 101 (Tuesday, July 20, 2004)]
[House]
[Pages H5989-H5990]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          NATIONAL DEBT RISES

  (Mr. ALEXANDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ALEXANDER. Mr. Speaker, it has been 1,167 days since President 
Bush and the Republican Party embarked on their economic plan for our 
country. During that time, the national debt has increased by 
$1,663,467,070,131.85.
  According to the Web site for the Bureau of Public Debt at the 
Treasury Department, yesterday the Nation's outstanding privately held 
debt was $4,228,533,122,486.63.
  Foreign holdings of U.S. privately held debt now total $1.75 
trillion. This

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is an increase of $740 billion since January of 2001 and is 41 percent 
of all privately held debt.

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