[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 2]
[House]
[Pages 1706-1707]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           PRESIDENT OBAMA'S FY 2017 BUDGET AND CRUSHING DEBT

  (Mr. ROTHFUS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)

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  Mr. ROTHFUS. Mr. Speaker, this is the cover of President Obama's last 
budget proposal. Whether or not the administration intended it, it is a 
fitting and appropriate cover because it symbolizes the mountain of 
debt President Obama will leave behind.
  His latest budget proposal increases spending by a record-breaking 
4.9 percent, or $2.5 trillion over the next decade. The President's 
budget leaves our children and grandchildren burdened with an 
unfathomable mountain of debt, regulations, and taxes; and like every 
other budget he has presented, it never balances. This budget is 
reckless and unconscionable.
  When President Obama took office on January 20, 2009, the national 
debt was $10.6 trillion; yet Mr. Obama has increased the national debt 
to $19 trillion, and this budget would increase our national debt to 
$27.4 trillion over the next decade--more than twice the debt when he 
first took office.
  This cover will be part of the Archives of the United States. It will 
be a fitting historical record for the mountains of debt it represents.

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