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

      Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2005 contains the
    Budget Message of the President, information on the President's budget
    and management priorities, and budget overviews organized by agency,
    including assessments of their performance.

      Analytical Perspectives, Budget of the United States Government,
    Fiscal Year 2005 contains analyses that are designed to highlight
    specified subject areas or provide other significant presentations of
    budget data that place the budget in perspective. This volume includes
    economic and accounting analyses; information on Federal receipts and
    collections; analyses of Federal spending; detailed information on
    Federal borrowing and debt; baseline or current services estimates; and
    other technical presentations.

      This year, the Analytical Perspectives volume contains a CD-ROM with
    certain information that was previously published in the budget
    documents, such as evaluations and analyses of programs and management
    at Federal departments and agencies, as well as lists of Federal
    programs by agency and account and by budget function.

        Historical Tables, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal
    Year 2005 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 2009. To the extent feasible,
    the data have been adjusted to provide consistency with the 2005 Budget
    and to provide comparability over time.

      Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2005--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.

                      AUTOMATED SOURCES OF BUDGET INFORMATION

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

      Budget 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.
    The budget CD-ROM also contains the material on the Analytical
    Perspectives CD-ROM.

      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 the budget 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.

         3.      At the time of this writing, 7 of the 13 appropriations bills for 2004 were not enacted, and the programs covered by them were operating under a continuing resolution. For these
                  programs, references to 2004 spending, including current services or baseline estimates, in the text and tables reflect the conference report on H.R. 2673, the Consolidated
                  Appropriations Bill, 2004.

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