Connecticut and Maine recently enacted measures that call for GMO labeling if other nearby states also enact labeling laws.
The government has enacted measures to combat ticket-scalping.
For example, last year two major French banks, Société Générale and Crédit Lyonnais, enacted measures that either restricted voting rights or stripped them from individual shareholders altogether.
For now, officials said, the administration is concentrating on making sure other countries comply with the newly enacted measures.
Still, states are primarily responsible for enacting measures to improve reporting to the NICS system," Dr. Coburn said.
The only way to make up that shortfall would be to enact measures like eliminating the write-off for interest on home mortgages, the deductions for state and local income taxes and for charitable contributions, or the research credit for businesses.
Supporters of the measures said they would enact measures that Mr. Bush has called for, but David Satterfield, a deputy assistant secretary of state for near-eastern affairs, said such bills would complicate the administration's diplomatic efforts.
The action — intended to help stem a recent influx of minors crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally — could also pave the way for Obama to enact measures to slow or postpone the deportations of hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who have lived in the country for years.
—Stung by a new report showing that the nation's job market is sputtering, President Obama made a new appeal Friday for Congress to enact measures to revive the economy, not only to shake the United States out of its torpor but to act as a buffer against storm clouds in Europe.
She praised her university for responding swiftly to the report and enacting measures to hire more women and improve the climate for women at M.I.T. generally.
He also urged Congress for the first time to enact measures to encourage energy conservation, as well as more domestic oil production.
