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Concurrent Budget Resolution on the Budget, Fiscal Year 2014
Floor Speech  Location: Washington, DC   Mr. COBURN. First of
all, I wish to thank the chairman of the Budget Committee for
bringing a budget to the floor. It is great that we have done
it.  We know the outcome of this budget vote already. The final
budget vote will not come until sometime in the middle of the
night. But in that budget we are going to spend $47 trillion.
There is a dispute between how we look at it and how our
colleagues on the other side look at it, but there is at least
$1 trillion in tax increases.  The new debt over the next 10
years is $7.3 trillion despite $1 trillion in tax hikes. The
debt that has been added since the last budget passed this
Senate is $5.5 trillion.  The spending increase above the
projected growth over 10 years is $645 billion. The spending
increase in this budget next year above today's budget level is
$162 billion.  The deficit increase next yea