Charles E. Schumer: “Mr. Speaker, when we began this bill, I introduced this bill a year and a half ago, and if anything has happened since…”

“Mr. Speaker, when we began this bill, I introduced this bill a year and a half ago, and if anything has happened since then, we have seen the need for it. First I would say that FACE has the overwhelming support of the House. On the last vote in March that sent this bill to conference, the vote was 252 to 180, it was bipartisan, liberals and conservatives and Members who call themselves pro-choice and pro-life. Mr. Speaker, that is simple. The reason for that is simple, because this is a bill about protecting a Federal right that is trying to be taken away. When local law enforcement is either unable or unwilling to protect the right, whether we agree or disagree with that right, that was granted to women in Roe versus Wade, we have no choice but to move in or all Federal rights become a mockery. Mr. Speaker, I would say to my colleagues that that is why this bill has had support, that is why this bill has gone through.”