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发帖数: 29846 | 1 $3.2万亿债务！民主党占多数的美国第111届议会期间，美国债务增加了空前的$3.2万
亿，相当于每个美国公民增加1万
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/111th-congress-added-more-debt-first-100
111th Congress Added More Debt Than First 100 Congresses Combined: $10,429
Per Person in U.S.
Monday, December 27, 2010
By Terence P. Jeffrey
Nancy Pelosi
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi holds one of the pens used by President Barack
Obama to sign the health care bill, Tuesday, March 23, 2010, in the East
Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
(CNSNews.com) - The federal government has accumulated more new debt--$3.22
trillion ($3,220,103,625,307.29)—during the tenure of the 111th Congress
than it did during the first 100 Congresses combined, according to official
debt figures published by the U.S. Treasury.
That equals $10,429.64 in new debt for each and every one of the 308,745,538
people counted in the United States by the 2010 Census.
The total national debt of $13,858,529,371,601.09 (or $13.859 trillion), as
recorded by the U.S. Treasury at the close of business on Dec. 22, now
equals $44,886.57 for every man, woman and child in the United States.
In fact, the 111th Congress not only has set the record as the most debt-
accumulating Congress in U.S. history, but also has out-stripped its nearest
competitor, the 110th, by an astounding $1.262 trillion in new debt.
During the 110th Congress—which, according to the Clerk of the House,
officially convened on Jan. 4, 2007 and adjourned on Jan. 4, 2009--the
national debt increased $1.957 trillion. When that Congress adjourned less
than two years ago, it claimed the record as the most debt-accumulating
Congress in U.S. history. As it turned out, however, its record did not last
long.
The $3.22 trillion in new federal debt run up during the 111th Congress
exceeds by 64 percent the $1.957 trillion in new debt run up during the
110th.
Although the 111th Congress cast its last vote on Dec. 22, it will not
officially adjourn until next week.
Democrats controlled both the House and Senate in the 110th and 111th
Congresses.
The 108th Congress ($1.159 trillion in new debt) and 109th ($1.054 trillion
in new debt) take third and fourth place among all U.S. Congresses for
accumulating debt. In both these Congresses, Republicans controlled both the
House and Senate.
Still, the $3.22 trillion in new debt accumulated during the record-setting
111th Congress is more than three times the $1.054 trillion in new debt
accumulated by the last Republican-majority Congress (the 109th) which
adjourned on Dec. 8, 2006.
Historically, according to the U.S. Treasury, the federal debt did not reach
$3.22 trillion until September 1990, during the 101st Congress. Between the
first Congress, which adjourned in 1791 leaving behind approximately $75
million in debt, and the convening of the 101st Congress, which occurred on
Jan. 3, 1989, the national debt grew to $2.684 trillion.
During the Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) tenure as speaker, which
commenced on Jan. 4, 2007, the federal government has run up $5.177 trillion
in new debt. That is about equal to the total debt the federal government
accumulated in the first 220 years of the nation's existence, with the
federal debt rising from $5.173 trillion on July 23, 1996 to $5.181 trillion
on July 24, 1996.
In her inaugural address as speaker, Pelosi vowed that Congress would engage
in no new deficit spending.
"After years of historic deficits, this 110th Congress will commit itself to
a higher standard: Pay as you go, no new deficit spending,” she said in an
address from the speaker’s podium. “Our new America will provide
unlimited opportunity for future generations, not burden them with mountains
of debt."
Here is an accounting of the new debt accumulated during the tenure of each
Congress since the 101st. The convening and adjourning dates are reported by
the Clerk of the House and the debt levels are recorded by the U.S.
Treasury:
Congress Convening/Adjourning Debt Levels
111th Congress
Jan. 6, 2009 $10,638,425,746,293.80
Dec. 22, 2010 $13,858,529,371,601.09
New Debt: $3,220,103,625,307.29
110th Congress
Jan. 4, 2007 8,670,596,242,973.04
Jan. 3, 2009 10,627,961,295,930.67
New Debt: 1,957,365,052,957.63
109th Congress
Jan. 4, 2005 7,601,016,892,663.19
Dec. 8, 2006 8,655,403,967,590.98
New Debt: 1,054,387,074,927.79
108th Congress
Jan. 7, 2003 6,387,381,983,103.35
Dec. 9, 2004 7,546,778,677,941.37
New Debt: 1,159,396,694,838.02
107th Congress
Jan. 3, 2001 5,723,237,439,563.59
Nov. 22, 2002 6,332,715,758,032.33
New Debt: 609,478,318,468.74
106th Congress
Jan. 6, 1999 5,615,428,551,461.33
Dec. 15, 2000 5,706,990,981,165.37
New Debt: 91,562,429,704.04
105th Congress
Jan. 7, 1997 5,312,781,237,956.91
Dec. 19, 1998 5,583,950,306,972.53
New Debt: 271,169,069,015.62
104th Congress
Jan. 4, 1995 4,801,793,426,032.89
Oct. 4, 1996 5,222,049,625,819.53
New Debt: 420,256,199,786.64
103rd Congress
Jan.5, 1993 4,169,232,407,244.75
Dec. 1, 1994 4,774,851,353,596.54
New Debt: 605,618,946,351.79
102nd Congress
Jan. 3, 1991 (Dec. 31, 1990) 3,364,820,000,000.00
Oct. 9, 1992 (Sept. 30, 1992) 4,064,621,000,000.00
New Debt: 699,801,000,000.00
101st Congress
Jan. 3, 1989 (Dec. 31, 1988) 2,684,392,000,000.00
Oct. 28, 1990 (Oct. 31, 1990) 3,274,950,000.000.00
New Debt: 590,558,000,000.00 |
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