[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 17]
[House]
[Pages 22968-22969]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         IS AMERICA UNSINKABLE?

  (Mr. WOLF asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WOLF. Mr. Speaker, recent numbers from the White House Office of 
Management and Budget, featured in the ad behind me, predict a Federal 
deficit of $9 trillion over the next decade. Do we really think America 
is unsinkable? I urge you to visit defeatthedebt.com and learn more 
about exactly how serious the mounting debt and deficits are to every 
American. A television ad being run by the same group features an 
elementary

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school class citing the Pledge of Allegiance to America's debt and the 
Chinese Government that lends us money.
  When will we wake up to how serious this problem is and take it 
seriously enough to deal with it? This Congress and this administration 
are failing the American people. We need to come together and sponsor 
the bipartisan Cooper-Wolf SAFE Commission bill.

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