[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 170 (Wednesday, September 29, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H5518]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   AMERICA'S DEBT IS BEING AUCTIONED

  (Mr. LONG asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LONG. Madam Speaker, the Ways and Means Committee went in last 
Saturday to mark up a $3.5 trillion spending bill, and when they got 
done, they had a $4.3 trillion spending bill.
  I don't know exactly how that happened, but I might have a suggestion 
on how it could have possibly happened.
  I am at a trillion. Now two, two trillion. Now three. Are you able to 
buy $3 trillion down here? Now 3\1/4\. What do you go for? 3\1/2\, 3\1/
2\. Now 4. Oh, 3\1/2\, now 4. At last call, 3\1/2\. Oh, 4 trillion, 4-
1, 4-1, 4.1, now 2. You can afford 2. 4.2. Now 3. $4.2 trillion, and I 
have sold it for $4.3 trillion.
  You know, Madam Speaker, Missourian Harry Truman said, when you get 
elected to Congress, you spend your first 6 months up here thinking, 
wow, how did I ever get here? And then you spend the whole rest of your 
career thinking, how did some of these other people get here?
  If you have watched the boondoggle on the floor this week, you know 
exactly what I mean.

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