[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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