Charles W. Stenholm: “The motion to instruct is truly a debate about priorities and values. The priorities, we believe very strongly this is…”

“The motion to instruct is truly a debate about priorities and values. The priorities, we believe very strongly this is the time for us to use that which we have the opportunity to do, and, that is, to pay down our national debt. We do have a surplus. This is the time for us to be fiscally responsible and pay down the national debt. This is the time for us to be dealing with a very serious problem of 2014 and Social Security, of which the gentleman from Texas certainly knows and the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Shaw) here knows that unless we do some things of a responsible nature soon, we will have deeper problems in 2014. That is what we ought to be doing. That is what the motion to instruct is all about. Do not have a tax cut today. What we should be debating this week before we go home is Social Security reform. What we ought to be dealing with is Medicare and Medicaid reform.”