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National Debt

Floor Speech

Date: Feb. 25, 2019
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Economy and Fiscal Government Budget and Spending

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Mr. COMER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in disappointment that, once again, the Federal Government is nearing another debt limit. Our national debt is a record $22 trillion.

I blame both parties for this reckless and immoral burden that has been placed on our children. We do not have a taxing problem in Congress; we have a spending problem in Congress.

Both parties have lacked fiscal responsibility over the past four decades. Both parties have operated in deficits when they were in power.

Mr. Speaker, it will take both parties working together to control our spending. Our national debt is the single biggest challenge that faces our great country, and, surely, we can make it a bipartisan movement to cut unnecessary and wasteful spending while still funding our most important priorities of Social Security, Medicare, and our national defense.

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