Check Clinton's budget on-line

The 1996 federal budget is now available online through the U.S. Commerce Department's STAT-USA service in searchable text format, accessible via FTP, gopher, and the World Wide Web.

The federal budget comes in four cumbersome books or four searchable text files. The choice is yours.

The 1996 proposed budget and free full-text searching software may be obtained on-line through the U.S. Commerce Department's STAT-USA information service. The documents are available through STAT-USA's Internet service using file transfer protocol (ftp), gopher and the World Wide Web (www) at the following addresses:

The ftp site is ftp.stat-usa.gov/pub/budgetfy96 The gopher site is gopher.stat-usa.gov/budgetfy96 The web site is http://www.doc.gov/inquery/budgetfy96

At the sites, look first for information about Adobe Acrobat, the software that lets you search the text. The accompanying readme file tell how to load the software in Windows. The budget text files require PKUNZIP, and that's provided, too.

For more information, call STAT-USA at (202) 482-1986.