[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 20]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 27761]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    OUR UNCONSCIONABLE NATIONAL DEBT

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                           HON. MIKE COFFMAN

                              of colorado

                    in the house of representatives

                       Monday, November 16, 2009

  Mr. COFFMAN of Colorado. Madam Speaker, this morning our national 
debt was $11,991,506,876,413.07. We have added $2,628,074,721.89 to the 
national debt since Friday, the 6th.
  On January 6, 2009, the start of the 111th Congress, the national 
debt was $10,638,425,746,293.80.
  This means the national debt has increased by $1,353,081,130,119.27 
so far this year.
  According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the 
forecast deficit for this year is $1.6 trillion. That means that so far 
this year, we have borrowed and spent an average $4.4 billion a day 
more than we have collected, passing that debt and its interest 
payments to our children and all future Americans.

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