[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 1]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 589]
[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

                      Wednesday, January 23, 2013

  Mr. COFFMAN. Mr. Speaker, on January 3, 2009, the day I took office, 
the national debt was $10,627,961,295,930.67.
  Today, it is $16,432,619,424,703.06. We've added 
$5,804,658,128,772.39 to our debt in 4 years. This is a $5.8 trillion 
in debt our nation, our economy, and our children could have avoided 
with a Balanced Budget Amendment. We must stop this unconscionable 
accumulation of debt.

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