[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 10]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 15009-15010]
[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, September 17, 2014

  Mr. COFFMAN. 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 $17,760,739,788,762.62. We've added 
$7,133,862,739,849.54 to our debt in 5 years. This is over $7.1 
trillion in debt our nation, our economy, and our children could

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have avoided with a balanced budget amendment.

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