[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 4]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 5707]
[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

                        Thursday, April 15, 2010

  Mr. COFFMAN of Colorado. Madam Speaker, today, tax day, our national 
debt is $12,823,492,436,215.11.
  On January 6th, 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 $2,185,066,689,921.31 
so far this Congress.
  This debt and its interest payments we are passing to our children 
and all future Americans. On tax day, the American public certainly 
should dread how we will pay this debt if meaningful reform is not 
enacted, and enacted soon--by yet more taxes. I urge my colleagues to 
join me in supporting H.J. Res 1, the Balanced Budget Amendment. We 
need to bring fiscal responsibility to our spending.

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