[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 7]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 10196]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   OUR UNCONSCIONSABLE NATIONAL DEBT

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                           HON. MIKE COFFMAN

                              of colorado

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, June 27, 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 $15,782,570,144,097.96. We've added 
$5,155,693,095,184.88 to our debt in just over 3 years. This is debt 
our nation, our economy, and our children could have avoided with a 
balanced budget amendment.
  On this day in 1950, President Harry Truman ordered air force and 
naval forces into the Korean War. A robust economy supported our 
powerful military. We must balance the budget in order to support our 
troops more fully.

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