FY2007 Budget Documents: Internet Access and GPO Availability
CRS Report for Congress
FY2007 Budget Documents:
Internet Access and GPO Availability
Jennifer Teefy
Information Research Specialist
Knowledge Services Group
Summary
Every year, the President submits to Congress a series of volumes that provide the
text of the President’s proposed budget for the coming fiscal year. By law, the proposal
is due by the first Monday in February. Neither the Congressional Research Service
(CRS) nor the Library of Congress can provide giveaway copies of the budget
documents. This report provides brief descriptions of the budget volumes and related
documents, together with Internet addresses, Government Printing Office (GPO) stock
numbers, and prices to obtain these publications. It also tells how to find locations of
government depository libraries, which can provide both printed copies for reference use
and Internet access to the text. This report will be updated as events warrant.
Introduction
The President’s budget for FY2007 consists of a multivolume set of materials issued
by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The materials contain information on
new budget proposals, summary tables, detailed financial information on individual
programs and accounts, economic analysis, historical data, explanations of the budget
processes, and supporting documents. Every year, the President submits these materials
to Congress at the start of the budget cycle for the next fiscal year. The President’s
submission is required on or after the first Monday in January, but not later than the first
Monday in February (31 U.S.C. Sec. 1105a).
Other budget-related documents released early each calendar year include the annual
Economic Report of the President, issued in February by the Council of Economic
Advisors, and the Budget and Economic Outlook, an annual publication issued by the
Congressional Budget Office (CBO). See below for details about these publications.
The President’s Budget Documents, Fiscal Year 2007
Both the OMB and the Government Printing Office (GPO) provide Internet access
to the main and supporting budget documents, spreadsheet files, the public budget
Congressional Research Service ˜ The Library of Congress
database, and budget amendments and supplementals proposed by the President. See,
respectively, [http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2007/] and
[ h ttp://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy07/browse.html] .
To perform word searches across budget documents online, go to
[http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy07/index.html] and scroll down to the search box.
Budget of the United States Government, FY2007; GPO stock number
041-001-00624-9, $67, 352 pages. This document contains information and color
photos, charts, and graphs on the President’s new budget proposals and overviews of
government activities by agency and topic (e.g., “Expanding Economic Opportunity,” the
“Nation’s Fiscal Outlook,” and “Managing for Results”). Summary tables (pp. 313-335)
contain projections of budget baselines, receipts, and outlays; deficits; debt; discretionary
spending; and economic assumptions from FY2006 to FY2011 and, in some cases, to
FY2016.
Budget of the United States Government CD-ROM, FY2007; GPO stock
number 041-001-00628-1, $21. The FY2007 Budget CD-ROM contains the budget
documents and software required to support reading, printing, and searching the
documents; presents many of the tables in spreadsheet form; and contains the material
included on the Analytical Perspectives CD-ROM described below.
Budget of the United States Government, FY2007 Appendix; GPO stock
number 041-001-00625-7, $85, 1,296 pages. Designed primarily for the use of the
House and Senate appropriations committees, the FY2007 Appendix contains more
detailed financial information on individual programs and appropriations accounts than
any of the other budget documents. For each agency, it provides the following:
!the proposed text of the appropriation 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 groups of agencies.
These elements are distinguished by varying the font and typeface, so that proposed
appropriations and prior year funding can be compared at a glance. The box below
provides an example from the FY2007 Appendix.
Language printed in roman type is used as a base, [brackets] enclose material
proposed for deletion, and italic type indicates proposed new language.
For expenses necessary for the Office of Civil Rights, as authorized by section
$92,866,000. (Department of Education Appropriations Act, 2006)
1 Excerpt from p. 375, FY2007 Budget Appendix, Department of Education, Office for Civil
Rights.
Analytical Perspectives, Budget of the United States Government,
FY2007; GPO stock number 041-001-00626-5, $65, 406 pages (includes
Chapters 27 and 28 on CD-ROM). This volume includes economic and accounting
and “crosscutting” analyses of government programs and activities designed to highlight
specific subject areas and provide other significant presentations of budget data to place
the budget in perspective. It includes information on federal receipts and collections,
detailed information on borrowing and debt, homeland security funding, baseline or
current service estimates, economic assumptions, budget reform proposals, tax
expenditures, trust funds, budget systems and concepts, and other technical presentations.
Chapter 8, “Aid to State and Local Governments,” contains a series of tables (pp. 120-
149) that provide information on state-by-state obligations for major federal formula grant
programs.
The FY2007 Analytical Perspectives volume includes a CD-ROM with certain
information that in previous years was published in other parts of the budget. The CD-
ROM contains Chapters 27 and 28 of the volume, which include detailed function tables,
federal programs by agency and account tables, and individual pages of program
summaries of federal agencies using the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART).
Chapters 27 and 28 are also available at [http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/fy07/
spec.html] and [http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2007/spec.html].
Historical Tables, Budget of the United States Government, FY2007;
GPO stock number 041-001-00627-3, $47, 336 pages. Detailed tables cover
budget deficit/surplus, outlays, receipts, discretionary and mandatory spending, federal
debt, federal employment, payments for individuals, spending by function and agency,
and grants to states and local governments. Provides some data from 1940 (or earlier) to
estimates for FY2011. Data are adjusted by OMB to be consistent with the 2007 budget
and to provide comparability over time.
Mid-Session Review, Budget of the United States Government, FY2007.
Released by OMB on July 11, 2006, this update of the President’s FY2007 budget
projections contains OMB revised estimates of the budget deficit, receipts, outlays, budget
authority for FY2006 through FY2011, and other summary information, as required by
statute. GPO does not offer this publication in its catalog; it is only available online at
[ http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2007/pdf/07msr.pdf] .
Economic Report of the President
Economic Report of the President, 2006; GPO stock number 040-000-
transmitted to Congress on February 13, 2006, presents the Administration’s report on its
economic policies and contains the annual report of the Council of Economic Advisors.
Appendix B of the Economic Report includes current and historical statistics on major
aspects of economic activity (pp. 273-410). Statistics include national income and
expenditures from 1959 to 2006, government finance, population, employment, wages,
productivity, prices, debt measures, corporate finance, and international statistics, in some
cases back to 1929.
The report is available from the GPO website at [http://www.gpoaccess.gov/
eop/index.html]. A searchable database of the Economic Report of the President for each
year from 1996 to the present is also available at this site. Spreadsheet files from the
Appendix B of the report can be searched and retrieved at [http://www.gpoaccess.gov/
eop/tables06.html]. The entire report is available from the White House website at
[ http://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/pubs.html] .
Congressional Budget Office
Budget and Economic Outlook: FY2007-FY2016; GPO stock number
052-070-07472-8, $28, 189 pages. CBO’s baseline budget projections run for 10
years in its budget reports. The report includes separate chapters on the economic
outlook, outlays, and receipts. The data cover FY2006 through FY2016. In addition to
chapters on the budget and economic, revenue, and spending outlooks, this publication
also includes a glossary and historical budget and economic data. The report is available
on the CBO website at [http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=7027&sequence=0].
An Analysis of the President’s Budgetary Proposals for Fiscal Year
2007. This report provides an analysis of the President’s budgetary proposals and CBO’s
updated baseline budget projections. The report is available on the CBO website at
[ h ttp://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm? i ndex =7069&sequence=0] .
Budget and Economic Outlook: An Update. This update to CBO’s Budget
and Economic Outlook provides revised baseline budget projections, including deficit and
surplus projections. The report also includes CBO's revised economic forecast and
projections through 2016. The report is available on the CBO website at
[ h ttp://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm? i ndex =7492&sequence=0] .
GPO Ordering Information
Printed copies of these government publications are available from GPO and may
be purchased using Discover, MasterCard, Visa, or American Express cards:
!online at the GPO website [http://bookstore.gpo.gov/];
!by telephone, (866) 512-1800;
!by fax, (202) 512-2104;
!by mail (check or money order), addressed to
Superintendent of Documents
P.O. Box 371954
Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954; and
!by teletype (710) 822-9413; ANSWERBACK USGPO WSH.
Depository Libraries
These documents are often available for reference use at large public or university
libraries, or at a federal government depository library. Addresses of the closest
depository libraries can be obtained through a local library or from the office of
depository services of the U.S. Government Printing Office, (202) 512-1119. Internet
users may obtain this information from the GPO Access website
([http://www.gpoaccess.gov/libraries.html]), which can be searched by state or area code.
Websites on Budget Legislation
Congressional Staff. The Congressional Research Service (CRS) has developed
(for Members of Congress and their staffs) two websites covering the budget and
appropriations process for congressional offices:
!Appropriations Analysis and Status Table. For the most current
information, congressional staff can access the Appropriations and
Budget Web page, with active links to CRS appropriations analysis and
the Status Table of Appropriations, with links to votes, committee and
conference reports, and public laws. Available from the CRS website at
[ h ttp://beta.crs.gov/cli/level _2.aspx ? PRDS_CLI_ITEM_ID=73] .
!CRS Budget Fact Sheets. Short explanations of budget concepts,
terminology, the congressional and executive budget process,
congressional budget timetable, budget resolutions and reconciliation, the
authorization and appropriations process, entitlements and discretionary
spending, the Budget Enforcement Act, sequestration, and
surpluses/deficits are available from the CRS website at
[ http://www.crs.gov/products/guides/guidehome.shtml] .
Public Use. Constituents have access to THOMAS ([http://thomas.loc.gov]), the
legislative website produced by the Library of Congress with data from the House and
Senate, which provides a Status Table of Appropriations with links to bills, committee
and conference reports, and votes for the 12 regular and any supplemental appropriations
bills.