[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 16825-16826]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    FAILED REPUBLICAN ECONOMIC PLAN

  (Mr. TANNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TANNER. Mr. Speaker, it has been 1,168 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 
$1,636,400,551,909.99.
  According to the Web site for the Bureau of the Public Debt at the 
U.S. Department of Treasury, yesterday the Nation's outstanding 
privately held debt was $4,228,487,022,143.12. Foreign holdings, debt 
held by foreign governments and others, not Americans, now total $1.5 
trillion. This is an increase of $740 billion since January 2001 and is 
now 41 percent of all privately held debt.

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