The new law is to strengthen China's overall economy and regulation.

We see that as strengthening powers and regulation over the next while.

It vowed to strengthen regulation of such companies, which together serve almost 100 million Americans.

We also need to strengthen our rules and regulations.

The House banking committee is working on a separate bill to strengthen regulation of derivatives activities by banks.

This underscores the urgent need to quickly strengthen European regulation of the financial markets.

But on other issues, from abortion to the size of Government to whether to strengthen environmental regulations, the two men and their followers are far apart.

He said he favors stricter enforcement over asking Congress to strengthen current regulations.

In particular, she said, the Government has strengthened regulations requiring contractors to call for information about buried pipelines before beginning excavation work.

LaWare also said he was opposed to a plan to strengthen regulations on derivative products, financial instruments such as futures or options.