"It's to give us enough enforcement tools to allow the good ones to keep going."

The government, it said, already has "vast legal authority and numerous enforcement tools" to ensure food safety.

Your regulator has enforcement tools to make sure you comply with environmental permitting.

"We have come to realize that all of the enforcement tools in the world can't make somebody pay if they don't have the money."

Even if a neutral inquiry found that one side or the other had violated the law, the enforcement tools are few.

That approach has been the only enforcement tool the Administration has ever raised when it spoke of the need for an overall health budget.

We view this as an enforcement tool; it just happens to have the effect of producing revenue.

The use of foreign aid as an enforcement tool would support local efforts.

It does not require new sources of money to use the enforcement tools that have always been available to the Federal supervisory authorities.

The Democrats seemed agreeable, though they also questioned whether the administration had used all the enforcement tools already available.