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

      Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2008 contains the
    Budget Message of the President, information on the President's
    priorities, and budget overviews organized by agency.

      Analytical Perspectives, Budget of the United States Government,
    Fiscal Year 2008 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; 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
    detailed tables, including tables showing the budget by agency and
    account and by function, subfunction, and program.

        Historical Tables, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal
    Year 2008 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 2008 or 2012. To the extent
    feasible, the data have been adjusted to provide consistency with the
    2008 Budget and to provide comparability over time.

      Appendix, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2008
    contains detailed information on the various appropriations and funds
    that constitute the budget and is designed primarily for the use of the
    Appropriations Committees. 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;
    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 in
    fully indexed PDF format along with the software required for viewing
    the documents. The CD-ROM has many of the budget tables 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 these documents use the following address:

                               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.

         3.      At the time of this writing, only two of the appropriations bills for 2007 had been enacted;
                  therefore, the programs provided for in the remaining 2007 appropriations bills were operating
                  under a continuing resolution (P.L. 109-289, Division B, as amended). For these programs,
                  references to 2007 spending in the text and tables reflect the levels provided by the continuing
                  resolution.

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