A pretty big number will hang over the Democratic convention as it kicks off in North Carolina's Time Warner Cable Arena on Tuesday. 
 
 That's the day the official debt clock is expected to show the U.S. debt crossing the $16 trillion mark. 
 
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 The counter, on the Treasury Department website, is on pause for the Labor Day weekend. The last update was Thursday afternoon, putting the figure at $15.99 trillion. 
 
 The figure should pass $16 trillion on Tuesday, which comes after Republicans made the skyrocketing debt a theme at their convention in Tampa. 
 
 The GOP convention featured two debt clocks -- one showing the total national debt and the other showing the amount of debt added during GOP convention week. The latter clock stopped, after Mitt Romney's nomination address Thursday night, showing $8.54 billion added to the debt during those four days alone. ||||| The Debt to the Penny and Who Holds It 
 
 ( Debt Held by the Public vs. Intragovernmental Holdings ) 
 
 Current Debt Held by the Public Intragovernmental Holdings Total Public Debt Outstanding 04/30/2013 11,943,148,398,205.65 4,885,697,098,978.25 16,828,845,497,183.90 
 
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 The data on total public debt outstanding is available daily from 01/04/1993 through 04/30/2013. The debt held by the public versus intragovernmental holdings data is available: 
 
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– A couple milestones will probably be hit as the Democratic National Convention kicks off in North Carolina—and not good ones. The Treasury Department's official national debt clock is currently sitting at $15.99 trillion, meaning it should click over to $16 trillion today, Fox News reports. We're guessing the Democrats won't make as big a deal of the clock as did the Republicans—who featured two debt clocks at their convention last week. And another dubious landmark is out today: Food stamp usage hit 46.7 million people in June, a record. That's 3.3% higher than participation from a year prior, Bloomberg reports