1.   A day earlier, Ashcroft criticized lawmakers for taking too long to consider his proposals, saying law enforcement needed tools and not talk to do their job.

2.   Duane Woerth, president of the Air Line Pilots Association, told the committee that law enforcement needs to get more involved in safety.

3.   Given the exigencies, law enforcement needs additional tools to prevent terrorist attacks.

4.   In each case, the measures duplicated federal law, but proponents argued that local law enforcement needed those tools, as well.

5.   Law enforcement needs informers.

6.   Rather than offering greater access into American lives, law enforcement needs to reexamine the legal tools at its disposal.

7.   Law enforcement needs all the help it can get in gang prevention.

8.   Law enforcement needs esprit de corps and pride.

9.   Ren cited bank fraud, tax evasion and offences in the securities, futures and real estate sectors as areas where law enforcement needed to be tightened.