Lizzie Fletcher: “it is really with a great privilege that I get to stand here and introduce this legislation. I recall back just after I…”

“it is really with a great privilege that I get to stand here and introduce this legislation. I recall back just after I was first sworn in, we heard the President of the United States stand up and say he wanted to spend 38 percent of the Social Security. We met in the Committee on the Budget, and we were able to save 100 percent of the Social Security surplus. We continue to exercise fiscal discipline. Because of that, we have surpluses now and will have paid off the publicly held debt by about $300 billion over the last several years. This bill is about several things. One, it is about priorities, about setting our priorities. Are we going to spend money on more and bigger government? Let me say the minority and the President have offered continually budgets and amendments that would spend and spend and spend on more government programs, on larger government, not on paying down the debt or giving some relief to the American people. So this allows us to say, Look, we have a priority here, and our priorities are, yes, let's pay down the publicly held debt. Some have said it is not significant but, believe me, I had a young lady, a Girl Scout here last week that came up and we talked about this bill. She figured her family's debt and how many boxes of Girl Scout cookies she would have to sell to pay off her family's portion of the publicly held debt. She would have to sell 19,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies for her to pay off her family's publicly held debt.”