[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 5]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 6815-6816]
[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

                         Tuesday, May 15, 2012

  Mr. COFFMAN of Colorado. Mr. Speaker, on January 20, 2009, the day 
President Obama took office, the national debt was 
$10,626,877,048,913.08.
  Today, it is $15,676,996,273,860.82. We've added 
$5,050,119,224,947.74 to our debt in

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just over 3 years. This is debt our nation, our economy, and our 
children could have avoided with a balanced budget amendment.

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