[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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