[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19153]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                         AMERICAN NATIONAL DEBT

  (Mr. HILL asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HILL. Mr. Speaker, it has been 803 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 $1,082,452,325,550. 
According to the website for the Bureau of Public Debt at the U.S. 
Department of Treasury, yesterday at 4:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, 
the Nation's outstanding debt was $6,722,777,711,908. Furthermore, in 
fiscal year 2003, interest on our national debt, or the ``debt tax,'' 
is $277,768,492,816 through June 30, 2003.

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