[Analytical Perspectives]
[The Budget Documents]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov]
THE BUDGET DOCUMENTS
Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2006 contains the
Budget Message of the President, information on the President's budget
and management priorities, and budget overviews organized by agency.
Analytical Perspectives, Budget of the United States Government,
Fiscal Year 2006 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.
The Analytical Perspectives volume also contains a CD-ROM with several
large tables previously published in the budget documents, along with
summaries of new performance assessments and updates on earlier
assessments for approximately 600 Federal programs.
Historical Tables, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal
Year 2006 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 2006. To the extent feasible,
the data have been adjusted to provide consistency with the 2006 Budget
and to provide comparability over time.
Appendix, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2006
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 separate 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.budget.gov/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.
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