[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 11]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 15578]
[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, October 13, 2011

  Mr. COFFMAN of Colorado. Mr. Speaker, today our national debt is 
$14,868,218,296,426.05.
  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 $4,229,792,550,132.25 
since then. This debt and its interest payments we are passing to our 
children and all future Americans.

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