Also, the IRS increased the overall use of enforcement tools (liens, levies, and seizures).
The problem is, he says, these enforcement tools quickly become draconian and are easily abused.
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The United States is strengthening its intelligence, military and security capabilities and drawing from a full range of law enforcement tools in coordination with partners around the globe.
Our plan would give law enforcement additional tools to prevent and prosecute gun crime by making gun trafficking a Federal crime with serious penalties, helping communities put 15, 000 cops on the street, and taking other common-sense steps.
We will do this by ensuring law enforcement has the tools it needs at the state, local, federal and international levels.
In 1994, I wrote the Violence Against Women Act, which established several critical new protections: first, it provides law enforcement with new tools to prosecute domestic violence crimes and put offenders behind bars.
In October 2001, Congress enacted the Patriot Act by overwhelming, bipartisan margins, arming law enforcement with new tools to detect and prevent terrorism: The USA Patriot Act was passed nearly unanimously by the Senate 98-1, and 357-66 in the House, with the support of members across the entire political spectrum.
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We gave law enforcement and the courts more tools to combat domestic violence and hold offenders accountable.
The new program "provides law enforcement with 21st-century tools they need to fight 21st-century crimes, " said Ray Fisher, associate attorney general.
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Through a television ad campaign and an influetial letter to Congress, the Center's efforts helped ensure that the intelligence and law enforcement communities would have the tools they need to keep America protected from future terrorist attacks.
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Congress has a responsibility to ensure that law enforcement and intelligence officials have the tools they need to protect the American people.
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For example, we now know that new screening tools can help law enforcement and the courts reduce domestic violence homicide rates, helping them to step in before abuse becomes murder.
The United States is committed to eradicating trafficking in persons, and we will draw on tools ranging from law enforcement and victim service provision, to public awareness building and diplomatic pressure.
While we can never fully repay them for their service, we must work to ensure our law enforcement officers are equipped with the tools and technology they need to do their jobs safely and effectively.
Schools have an obligation to ensure a safe learning environment for everyone and we will continue to use all of the tools in our law enforcement arsenal to ensure that all students can go to school without fearing harassment.
They have tended to characterize the Act as an assault on the basic freedoms enshrined in the Bill of Rights and have sought far-reaching changes in the tools it provides law enforcement to detect and prevent terrorist plots inside the United States.
The most consequential part of President Bush's State of the Union address tonight, at least in the near-term, will be the section he devotes to the need to ensure that the Nation's law enforcement and intelligence communities have the tools they need to protect us.
While we have the ability to enforce our existing IP laws against rogue sites operating within our borders, our enforcement agencies currently lack the legal tools to enforce these very same laws on rogue sites operating outside of the U.S. And indeed, many of these rogue sites are entirely foreign.
It does mean we possess many tools -- diplomatic and political, and economic and financial, and intelligence and law enforcement and our moral suasion -- and using these tools over the past three years, I believe -- I know -- that we have saved countless lives.
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Will being given technology tools that make law-enforcement-style surveillance so easy a baby could do it transform us (more than Facebook already has) into a society of spies?
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These initiatives cover a wide range of areas, from government contracting regulation, to more coordinated responses to trafficking, to better victim services, to innovative public-private partnerships that will create technology tools for survivors and law enforcement.
It is to be expected, however, that Washington will be urged to trade a relaxation of the export control standard on machine tools for promises of greater allied efforts on enforcement.
Armed with these tools, U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agents have pursued and captured operatives in the war on terrorism from Florida to New York, from Virginia to Oregon and points in between.
In addition to the engineering teams that build tools to block spam we also have a dedicated enforcement team that seeks to identify those responsible for spam and works with our legal team to ensure appropriate consequences follow.
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"This is a legitimate use of the tools that the administration has to focus on their immigration enforcement resources, " she said.
Law-enforcement authorities argue the laws afford adequate citizen protections and are important tools used to drain the wealth of drug traffickers and other criminal enterprises.
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The Patriot Act enhanced communication on every level of law enforcement to combat terrorist threats, while also giving investigators the same tools to use in terrorism cases that they were using to combat other serious threats.
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