ANALYTICAL
PERSPECTIVES
BUDGET OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Fiscal Year 2006
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.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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List of Charts and Tables ............................................................................................. iii
Introduction
1. Introduction ....................................................................................................... 3
Performance and Management Assessments
2. Budget and Performance Integration .............................................................. 9
Crosscutting Programs
3. Homeland Security Funding Analysis ............................................................. 37
4. Strengthening Federal Statistics ..................................................................... 53
5. Research and Development .............................................................................. 61
6. Federal Investment ........................................................................................... 73
7. Credit and Insurance ........................................................................................ 85
8. Aid to State and Local Governments ............................................................... 123
9. Integrating Services with Information Technology ........................................ 173
10. Federal Drug Control Funding ......................................................................... 181
11. California-Federal Bay-Delta Program Budget Crosscut (CALFED) ............ 183
Economic Assumptions and Analyses
12. Economic Assumptions ...................................................................................... 187
13. Stewardship ....................................................................................................... 199
14. National Income and Product Accounts .......................................................... 227
Budget Reform Proposals
15. Budget Reform Proposals .................................................................................. 235
Federal Borrowing and Debt
16. Federal Borrowing and Debt ............................................................................ 245
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TABLE OF CONTENTS—Continued
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Federal Receipts and Collections
17. Federal Receipts ................................................................................................ 263
18. User Charges and Other Collections ............................................................... 301
19. Tax Expenditures .............................................................................................. 315
Dimensions of the Budget
20. Comparison of Actual to Estimated Totals ..................................................... 361
21. Outlays to the Public, Net and Gross .............................................................. 369
22. Trust Funds and Federal Funds ...................................................................... 371
23. Off-Budget Federal Entities and Non-Budgetary Activities .......................... 377
24. Federal Employment and Compensation ........................................................ 381
Current Services Estimates
25. Current Services Estimates .............................................................................. 389
The Budget System and Concepts
26. The Budget System and Concepts ................................................................... 407
Detailed Functional Table
27. Detailed Functional Table ................................................................................ CD-ROM
Federal Programs by Agency and Account
28. Federal Programs by Agency and Account ...................................................... CD-ROM
Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART), Program Summaries
29. PART Assessments by Agency ......................................................................... CD-ROM
