[Analytical Perspectives]
[The Budget Documents]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


  Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2003 contains the 
Budget Message of the President and information on the President's 
budget and management priorities, including assessments of agencies' 
performance.

  Analytical Perspectives, Budget of the United States Government, 
Fiscal Year 2003 contains analyses that are designed to highlight 
specified subject areas or provide other significant presentations of 
budget data that place the budget in perspective.

  The Analytical Perspectives volume includes economic and accounting 
analyses; information on Federal receipts and collections; analyses of 
Federal spending; detailed information on Federal borrowing and debt; 
the Budget Enforcement Act preview report; current services estimates; 
and other technical presentations. It also includes information on the 
budget system and concepts and a list of Federal programs by agency and 
account, as well as by budget function.

    Historical Tables, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal 
Year 2003 provides data on budget receipts, outlays, surpluses or 
deficits, Federal debt, and Federal employment over an extended time 
period, generally from 1940 or earlier to 2007. To the extent feasible, 
the data have been adjusted to provide consistency with the 2003 Budget 
and to provide comparability over time.

  Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2003--Appendix 
contains detailed information on the various appropriations and funds 
that constitute the budget and is designed primarily for the use of the 
Appropriations Committee. The Appendix contains more detailed financial 
information on individual programs and appropriation accounts than any 
of the other budget documents. It includes for each agency: the proposed 
text of appropriations language, budget schedules for each account, new 
legislative proposals, explanations of the work to be performed and the 
funds needed, and proposed general provisions applicable to the 
appropriations of entire agencies or group of agencies. Information is 
also provided on certain activities whose outlays are not part of the 
budget totals.

  Budget System and Concepts, Fiscal Year 2003 contains an explanation 
of the system and concepts used to formulate the President's budget 
proposals.

  Budget Information for States, Fiscal Year 2003 is an Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) publication that provides proposed State-by-
State obligations for the major Federal formula grant programs to State 
and local governments. The allocations are based on the proposals in the 
President's Budget. The report is released after the budget.

                  AUTOMATED SOURCES OF BUDGET INFORMATION

  The information contained in these documents is available in 
electronic format from the following sources:

  CD-ROM. The CD-ROM contains all of the budget documents and software 
to support reading, printing, and searching the documents. The CD-ROM 
also has many of the tables in the budget in spreadsheet format.

  Internet. All budget documents, including documents that are released 
at a future date, will be available for downloading in several formats 
from the Internet. To access documents through the World Wide Web, use 
the following address:

                   http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget

  For more information on access to electronic versions of the budget 
documents (except CD-ROMs), call (202) 512-1530 in the D.C. area or 
toll-free (888) 293-6498. To purchase a CD-ROM or printed documents call 
(202) 512-1800.


                                     

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                                                                      GENERAL NOTES
 
 
 
     1.      All years referred to are fiscal years, unless otherwise noted.
 
     2.      Detail in this document may not add to the totals due to rounding.
 

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