On the recordMarch 19, 1996
The $5 trillion Federal debt stands today as an increasingly grotesque parallel to the energizer bunny on television that keeps moving and moving and moving--precisely in the same manner, and to the same extent, that President Clinton is allowing the Federal debt to keep going up and up into the stratosphere. Politicians like to talk good games--and ``talk'' is the operative word--about cutting the Federal spending and thereby bringing the Federal debt under control. But watch how they vote on the big-spending bills. Mr. President, at the close of business yesterday, March 18, the Federal debt stood at $5,055,609,537,686.31, an average per capita debt of $19,116.82 for every man, woman, and child in America.
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