Florida Senate - 2012                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SM 1142
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  01/19/2012           .                                
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       The Committee on Judiciary (Richter) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment 
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    3         In title, delete lines 10 - 21
    4  and insert:
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    6         WHEREAS, as of December 30, 2011, the national debt was
    7  more than $15.2 trillion, a cost of more than $48,500 for each
    8  man, woman, and child in the United States, and it is growing at
    9  an alarming rate, and
   10         WHEREAS, for the 2011 fiscal year, the Congressional Budget
   11  Office reports a federal budget deficit of $1.3 trillion, or a
   12  national deficit equal to nearly 10 percent of the country’s
   13  entire economic output, the third-largest share of entire
   14  economic output this country has experienced since 1945, and
   15         WHEREAS, the total national debt outstanding exceeds the
   16  current gross domestic product of the United States, as of
   17  January 2012, and