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Congress

• November 24 -- A Fact-Starved Tidbit on Rising U.S. Hunger
The Times takes a musty liberal anecdote as fact: "In a reflection of a growing need among the working poor, demonstrated in lengthening lines at food banks and pantries, Congress approved an increase of nearly $1.5 billion in the food stamp program."

• November 23 -- Bush Should Squeeze Congress, Says Suddenly Supportive Times
Suddenly, the Times favors Bush pressuring Congress: "A number of Congressional Republicans and members of the Sept. 11 commission….said that Mr. Bush, who has vowed to revive the bill, also needed to put pressure on a handful of House members aligned with the Pentagon who defied the president over the weekend and blocked a final vote on the legislation."

• November 22 -- A Double Standard on Anti-Terror Cheap Shots?
Labeling bias and double standards on political "cheap shots" in a front-page story from Philip Shenon and Carl Hulse.

• November 9 -- Don't Get "Too Radical," Republicans
Sheryl Gay Stolberg thinks Republicans can be dissuaded from "too radical an agenda."

• November 5 -- Tom Delay "Pushes the Limits"
Carl Hulse profiles Tom DeLay: "In the weeks leading up to the voting, Mr. DeLay was hit with back-to-back scoldings from the House ethics committee, reinforcing his reputation as a lawmaker who pushes the limits…with President Bush and other top Congressional Republicans talking about trying to reduce the partisanship that has gripped Capitol Hill, some are wondering whether the combative majority leader will move in that direction as well."

• November 4 -- Curtain Call for Tom Daschle, "A Man of Decency"
One last loving profile from Sheryl Gay Stolberg on defeated Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle: "The soft-spoken leader has often been described by his fellow Democrats as a man of decency."

• October 25 -- More Republican "Extremism" from James Traub
James Traub contributes another column on Republican "extremism" to the Sunday Magazine.

• June 3 -- Anti-War Party Brewing in South Dakota? Hardly
Stephen Kinzer's report on a special House election in South Dakota relays pro-Dem, anti-war spin after finding a whopping nine people there who disapprove of Bush's war policies.

• June 2 -- "More Oversight of Bush" Needed, Says GOP?
Carl Hulse's piece carries the blunt headline, "Even Some in GOP Call For More Oversight of Bush." But does the story deliver?

• December 1 -- "Rising Incivility" in Congress: Blame Gingrich
Sheryl Gay Stolberg laments "Rising Incivility on Capitol Hill" and finds that it's (of course) Newt Gingrich's fault: "The old social order of the House was overturned in 1994, when Republicans, led by Representative Newt Gingrich of Georgia, wrested control of the chamber from Democrats after 40 years....the tensions spread to the Senate as House members trained in Mr. Gingrich's bare-knuckles style won election there."

• October 15 -- No Liberal Democrats?
David Firestone's latest story on opposition to Bush's aid request for Iraq finds both "conservative" Democrats and Republicans speaking out against it, but no liberals.

• September 24 -- Rebuilding Plans for War-Torn America?
David Firestone’s dispatch on Paul Bremer’s Capitol Hill appearance passes on Democratic criticism equating rebuilding in war-torn Iraq to “rebuilding” in the U.S.: “Democratic senators said that the request was probably far smaller than the eventual total would be and that similar rebuilding plans at home were being neglected.”

• July 28 -- Huge Study Confirms Bias at the Times
A huge study of newspaper political coverage from Reagan to Bush II finds: “The New York Times displayed a tilt toward the Democrats….The evidence suggests that the Times tilts somewhat toward the Democrats, particularly in its Congressional coverage.”

• April 28 -- The Iraq Tax War?
Times reporter David Rosenbaum: “In a speech on April 15, [Bush] declared that ‘our victory in Iraq is certain, but it is not complete,’ referring to his tax plan.” Huh?

• March 24 -- Even Bush’s Allies Hate Him
“The White House's reticence about war costs has crystallized a sense among its political opponents, some independent observers and even some Republicans that Mr. Bush is willing to suppress information that threatens his agenda,” reporter Richard Stevenson argued. “Frustration with the lack of information from the administration has bubbled up in recent weeks even among some of the administration's strongest allies.” As an example, Stevenson quoted…Sen. Chuck Hagel?

• March 24 -- Pleading Democrats Try To Halt Record Republican Deficits
Times reporters Carl Hulse and David Firestone implied it was unseemly for Congressional Republicans to promote Republican legislation during wartime. “Though Democrats pleaded for a halt after the war began, the Republican leaders of the House and Senate chose not to stop their march toward tax cuts and record deficits…”