"Our traditional response will continue to serve us well," he said in a memorandum to the staff.
"It is important that the federal government lead by example," he said in his memorandum.
The changes were announced yesterday in a memorandum sent to employees at the bank.
But in an internal memorandum written last month, one of the department's chief planners said the increase would probably be less than 6,000.
The Bush administration acknowledged the problem in a recent memorandum to insurers.
The move was announced yesterday in a memorandum to publishers on the service.
But in a memorandum to state officials, the Bush administration rejected that recommendation.
He laid out arguments for a third party in a memorandum sent earlier this month to news organizations.
We have made the case in our memorandum that these are extraordinary times.
Employees were notified of the new policy in a memorandum issued two weeks ago.