Lizzie Fletcher: “We have a $3.5 trillion publicly held debt. That is mind boggling. We must continue on this historic path to pay down…”

“We have a $3.5 trillion publicly held debt. That is mind boggling. We must continue on this historic path to pay down the publicly held debt. We have an opportunity today to actually appropriate and pay down the publicly held debt by another $25 billion. Just a few weeks ago we voted to pay it down by $16 billion. Today the Congressional Budget Office reported that the sun is shining ever brighter on America, that we have a greater surplus. We have voted to set aside Social Security with a lockbox. We voted to set aside Medicare with a lockbox. Now we are setting debt reduction as a priority so that at the end of the year, if we are looking at the surplus, we have to decide truly are we going to take this money from this debt reduction account and spend it on more and bigger government, as has been done by the minority for years and years, or are we truly going to remove the shackle of debt from our children, are we going to reduce that debt, the debt that every family in America and every future generation will have to pay.”