The president is pleased and calls now on all parties to live up to their responsibilities for peace and security in the region and reforms in the Palestinian Authority.

We support the resolution, we voted for it and we helped draft it. We were willing to work with the U.N. to draft a resolution that could be agreed to.

The president is deeply concerned and he calls on Mr. Arafat and the Palestinians to take concrete measures to end the violence immediately.

The president continues to take his message to the American people, outlining his budget and tax cut plans, and the mercantile exchange is a good venue to talk about economic growth.

We have been committed for some time to make sure they have the equipment and training they need for this to be a better prepared country, … We are far more prepared than we were...

does not anticipate a change in the immediate time period … to include next week.

The budget the report suggests seems to be grossly inflated,

be more careful when they look at these things.

Obviously the United States government deplores this violence, … We stand ready to assist the governments of Kenya and Israel as they investigate these attacks.

The only change would be transferring the legal authority of the Immigration and Naturalization Services from the Justice Department to the Homeland Security Department,

The U.S. government deplores this violence, and we stand ready to assist the governments of Kenya and Israel in investigating these attacks.

the primary foreign policy official.

This is not a new concern, but it is one we take seriously. We are working to reduce our vulnerability to this threat.