In the days when their unemployment level was below 5% and the country's economy was among Europe's strongest, they championed tough Europe-wide enforcement of deficit limits and austerity.
But he said there was a need for a wider enforcement programme.
Mr. Froman is also pursuing trade-promotion efforts in Africa and a wide-ranging enforcement agenda, which includes exploring trade cases against China and other countries, monitoring new bilateral free-trade agreements and compiling a report on 41 countries accused of violating the intellectual property rights of the United States.
The home secretary said tackling trafficking would be one of the "highest priorities" for the new National Crime Agency, which will take over the responsibilities of the Serious and Organised Crime Agency and other UK-wide law enforcement bodies from October.
Following news of the rating change on May 3, 2006, the Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association (IEMA), an organization of game retailers, which had previously eased the adoption of industry-wide ratings enforcement, issued its own statement, lauding its own retailers for the speed with which they reacted to the rating change.
The breakthrough in unravelling the nexus of criminal gangs in Wisbech only came when officers from a wide range of enforcement bodies – the council, the fire service, the police, HMRC, the Gangmasters Licensing Authority and immigration enforcement – went out on the ground and visited properties where migrants were living.
In each case, local authorities have wide latitude for enforcement.
And they said Congress had granted federal law enforcement wide discretion over how those laws should be carried out.
Police officers who want to make an arrest to intimidate would-be videographers can always use broadly written laws that prohibit public disorder, interfering with a police officer, or similar ordinances that give law enforcement wide discretion.
"Sanctions would be introduced at an earlier stage, be more progressive and rely on a wider spectrum of enforcement measures," he said.
Mr. Mukasey has endorsed provisions of the USA Patriot Act, the law passed by Congress after 9/11 to grant wide new law-enforcement power to the executive branch.
