[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 16264]
[From the U.S. 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 is an increase of $740 billion since January of 2001 and 
is 41 percent of all privately held debt.

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