While some of the president's recommendations require Congressional approval, he already has ample authority under existing laws to require other steps.

As long as a convention is adopted and goes into effect, they will claim ample authority to protect their culture.

The police will still have ample authority to throw anyone into a "reform through labor" camp for three years without trial.

Yet what many policy makers may not realize is that federal officials already have ample legal authority to stop predatory lending.

As for protecting classified information, existing law gives prosecutors ample authority to prevent such information from being compromised in trial.

"There's ample authority out there by both E.P.A. and the states to deal with these sites if there's concern."

Even if the resolution fails to pass, he said, the United States believes it has ample legal authority to go to war under the previous resolutions.

Existing laws provide ample authority to crack down on obscene material that raises no constitutional issues.

But it provides ample authority for multilateral trade talks, while the proposed Senate legislation is harmfully tentative.

A fortiori, Congress also possesses ample authority to prevent chaos, turmoil and violations of due process in presidential elections.