Guide to the Budget Process

• Budget Process (Columbia University)
  • Annotated outline of the budget process with the titles of printed documents and links to those on the web
  • Background information, executive activity, legislative activity, the budget calendar, and news
  • Some web links go to a Columbia server; titles such as Congressional Quarterly must be accessed separately through the Documents Center's web page rather than Columbia's

Federal Budget (Presidential Submission)

• Federal Budget FY 2009
  • Full text of budget and appendices in pdf format downloadable by chapter/agency
    • PDFs are digitally signed and require Acrobat 7.0 or 8.0
  • Also Historical Tables and Analytical Tables
  • Includes numerous spreadsheets in XLS format, among them Historical Tables and a state-by-state analysis

• Federal Budget FY 2008
  • Full text of budget and appendices in pdf format downloadable by chapter/agency
  • Also Historical Tables and Analytical Tables
  • Includes numerous spreadsheets in XLS format, among them Historical Tables and a state-by-state analysis

• Federal Budget FY 2007
  • Full text of budget and appendices in pdf format downloadable by chapter/agency
  • Also Historical Tables and Analytical Tables
  • Includes numerous spreadsheets in XLS format, among them Historical Tables and a state-by-state analysis

• Federal Budget FY 2006
  • Full text of budget and appendices in pdf format downloadable by chapter
  • Also Historical Tables and Analytical Tables

• Federal Budget FY 2005
  • Full text of budget and appendices in pdf format downloadable by chapter
  • Also Historical Tables and Analytical Tables
  • Alternate spreadsheets in WK4 and XLS formats

• Federal Budget FY 2004
  • Budget and appendix can be downloaded by chapter or in their entirety
  • Receipts and expenditures available in several spreadsheet formats
  • Historical Tables in one pdf file

• Federal Budget FY 2003
  • Federal Budget FY 2003
    • Full text of budget and appendices in pdf format downloadable by chapter
    • Also Historical Tables and Analytical Tables
    • Alternate spreadsheets in WK4 and XLS formats
  • President's Budget Briefing
    • Submitted on February 4, 2002
    • Includes broad outlines
    • Supplemented by recommendations on revenue sharing levels for each state covering such items as homeland security,jobs, education, environment, and social welfare

• Federal Budget FY2002
  • President Bush's budget submitted to Congress on February 28, 2001
  • Blueprint for New Beginnings (pdf)
    • The President's initiative budget message includes text of message for a 10-year reform, tax cuts, and 4% increase
    • Tables include recommended funding for executive and independent agencies
    • Only item available on February 28, 2001; further publications should be printed by April 2001

• Federal Budget FY2001
  • President Clinton's recommended budget, presented February 7, 2000
  • Full text of the Budget and its Appendix, Historical Tables, Analytical Perspectives, Systems and Concepts
  • All sections searchable together or individually
  • Sample search: day ADJ care
  • Search results yield sections of the budget in text or pdf format

• Federal Budget FY2000
  • Full text of the Budget and its Appendix, Budget Analyses, Historical Tables, Systems and Concepts, Principles, and Citizen's Guide
  • Keyword searching available for one or more publications

• Federal Budget FY99
  • Full text of the Budget and its Appendix, Budget Analyses, Historical Tables, Systems and Concepts, Principles, and Citizen's Guide
  • Keyword searching available for one or more publications

• Federal Budget FY98
  • Full text of the Budget and its Appendix, Budget Analyses, Historical Tables, Systems and Concepts, Principles, and Citizen's Guide
  • Keyword searching available for one or more publications
  • For coverage of the balanced budget agreement, see Documents in the News, 1997

• Federal Budget FY97
  • Browsable text of the proposed budget submitted on February 5, 1996
  • Includes historical tables of budget expenditures in text or spreadsheet format
  • Detailed appendix of agency expenditures, analyses, and mid-year review of expenditures

• Federal Budget, FY 1996
  • Federal Budget FY96 Text (As proposed)
    • Searchable interface to the complete budget text and tables
    • Mid-year reports updating the budget
  • Balanced Budget and Shutdown
    • Links to the various bills involved in the 1995/96 government shutdown and balanced budget attempts
    • Costs of the shutdown

• Historical Budget Volumes
  • Budget of the United States Government, 1923/24- (HJ 2051 .A59 with 1923-69 in Buhr)
  • Congressional Universe / Historical Indexes; search "appropriations or budget" in the Serial Set Collection

Agency Submissions

• Agency submissions often provide additional details to the President's budget request
• Agency for International Development
  • See Congressional Presentation
• Defense Department
• Education Department
• Energy Department
• Food and Drug Administration
• Health and Human Services
• Housing and Urban Development
• State Department

Congressional Budget Committees

• Web sites provide analyses and opinions
• Congressional Budget Office
  • Text of selected reports, beginning 1995, on the federal budget, budget issues (e.g. cost of army helicopters), and five-year economic projections
  • Bibliography of printed publications not available on the web
• House Budget Committee (Republicans)
  
• House Budget Committee (Democrats)
• Senate Budget Committee

Final Congressional Appropriations

• Current Status of Appropriations Bills (Library of Congress)
  • Chart by subject lists bill number, House and Senate committee and subcommittee approval, any reports as well as the conference report, and public law number
  • Time series begins 1998
  • Handy access for current bills being considered
  • GPO Access links to similar information in list form
• Appropriations Legislation (GPO Access)
  • Links to the full text of reports and appropriations laws beginning with FY97
  • Text and pdf formats

Outlays

• Public Budget Database (OMB)
  • Detailed spreadsheets of budget authority by agency and subagency since 1976, outlays since 1962, and receipts since 1962
  • There is no overall URL for the database but it can be located on the official OMB page for the federal budget each year

• Historical Tables of the Budget
  • Provides budget authority and outlays by agency, subagency, and function beginning in either 1940, 1962 or 1976
  • Also available in the Graduate Library with current year in the Documents Center: HJ 9 .U561

• Expect More
  • Rates government programs under the GW Bush administration for their effectiveness in relation to budget

Request v. Appropriation

• Congressional Quarterly Almanac (UMich Only)
  • Browse APPROPRIATIONS section; then choose year; then choose general field of appropriations (e.g. agriculture, foreign affairs, etc.)
  • Click on the link that says "sidebar" for a comparison of the President's request, House and Senate budget bills, and final appropriations
  • Procedure works at minimum back to 1970

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