Chuck Schumer: “We did add a new Federal law, I would say to my friend from Florida, when we accepted the Frost amendment. We crossed…”

“We did add a new Federal law, I would say to my friend from Florida, when we accepted the Frost amendment. We crossed that bridge. We did not stay with the concept of just enhancing the penalty. We made a new Federal crime, as I understand it, with Frost. Mr. Chairman, the second point I would make to my friend from Florida, with the gentleman from California's gracious yielding to me, is this: The gentleman made an argument, well, if it was just for rape or just for some kind of, I think he mentioned, sexual crime, he would be for it. Well, we do not limit the base bill to children for that. We do not say if it was just a crime against children, a sexual crime. We have any child, we would ask the Sentencing Commission to enhance the penalty, and we are saying the same thing here for women who tend all too often to be the victims of crimes committed by men.”