Another factor affecting human rights was the threat posed by terrorism and antiterrorism activities.
In the House, Representative Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri, the minority leader, said "we will continue to see if we can divert some of this money" from missile defense to antiterrorism activities.
The vote was a political victory for Mr. Bush and a major setback for Senate Democrats, who had tried to provide more money than the president sought for New York and for antiterrorism activities.
But among the possibilities cited are a faltering economy, an increase in the more crime-prone teenage population, wars between competing drug gangs, an increase in inmates released from prisons where they were warehoused rather than rehabilitated and the diversion of police resources to antiterrorism activities.
"It is clear we are in front of a new generation of activity," said one antiterrorism official.
Mr. de la Rua and his aides have promised to end such activities and focus on antiterrorism and anticrime.
Mr. Daschle said Mr. Lieberman's concept of a White House antiterrorism office could help synchronize the activities of the nation's intelligence apparatus and "begin making this coordinated effort a lot more effective than it is today".
In recent years, the United States has praised Indonesia's antiterrorism campaigns, which have drastically curtailed the activities of extremists, especially against Western targets.
Hundreds of Kurdish children were imprisoned under a tough antiterrorism law, introduced in 2006, that equated protest activities like attending an illegal rally with being a member or supporter of a terrorist group, according to Berivan's lawyer, Reyhan Yalcindag, a leading human rights activist.
The two countries have also established channels for sharing information and intelligence on terrorist activities and have agreed to hold formal antiterrorism consultations twice a year.
