[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 26553]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              HEALTH CARE

  (Mr. WOLF asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WOLF. Uncle Sam is saying, Don't let debt defeat a great Nation.
  America is going broke. We must carefully weigh the implications of a 
costly new government spending program at a time when the country 
already owes $56 trillion of entitlement obligations to China and to 
Saudi Arabia.
  I am deeply concerned about the national debt, which has doubled 
since 2000 and is nearly $12 trillion for the first time in history. 
Any plan put forward must control costs, not add billions of dollars to 
an already ballooning deficit.
  America is going broke. Is this the legacy Congress wants to leave to 
our children and our grandchildren? Don't let debt defeat a great 
Nation.

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