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Sheryl Gay Stolberg


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October 2003: Journalist.

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Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) New York Times Source Jul 21, 2010

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Jul 21, 2010 White House Offers Apology to Official Accused of Bias

QUOTE: The White House and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack apologized profusely and repeatedly on Wednesday to a black midlevel official [Shirley Sherrod--Ed.] for the way she had been humiliated and forced to resign her Agriculture Department job after a conservative blogger put out a misleading video clip that seemed to show her admitting antipathy toward a white farmer.

 New York Times
Jul 20, 2010 Senate Panel Backs Kagan Nomination, With One Republican Vote

QUOTE: Just one Republican, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, broke ranks with his party to back Ms. Kagan. His lengthy speech supporting her led to debate about the Senate’s increasingly partisan approach to judicial confirmations, as he took colleagues — including President Obama when he was a senator — to task for basing their votes on philosophy, rather than qualifications and character.

 New York Times
Aug 08, 2009 Where Have You Gone, Joe the Citizen?

QUOTE: The traditional town hall meeting, a staple of Congressional constituent relations, had been hijacked, overrun by sophisticated social-networking campaigns [to protest healthcare reform]...

 New York Times
May 23, 2009 Nuance Is Fine Until It’s a Flip-Flop

QUOTE: It was the kind of careful, nuanced argument...a methodical laying-out of the facts by a president who seems convinced that if he simply explains himself to the American people, they will surely understand his position and forgive him for changing his mind. It is a tactic Mr. Obama has employed repeatedly as president...

 New York Times
Jul 17, 2008 Fund-Raiser Apparently Offers Access for a Price

QUOTE: The White House on Wednesday disavowed the actions of a Houston businessman and Bush campaign fund-raiser who was caught on videotape apparently trying to trade access to top administration officials — including Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice — in exchange for six-figure donations to President Bush’s library foundation.

 New York Times
Jun 18, 2008 Bush Will Seek to End Offshore Oil Drilling Ban

QUOTE: ...Senator John McCain of Arizona, used a speech in Houston on Tuesday to say he now favors offshore drilling, an announcement that infuriated environmentalists who have long viewed him as an ally...Even before the disclosure of Mr. Bush’s decision, the drilling issue caused a heated back-and-forth on the campaign trail on Tuesday, as Mr. McCain sought to straddle the divide between environmentalists and the energy industry, while facing accusations from his Democratic opponent, Senator Barack Obama, that he had flip-flopped and capitulated to the oil industry.

 New York Times
May 29, 2008 Ex-Aide Turns Critic; Chorus Strikes Back

QUOTE: As news of Mr. McClellan’s new tell-all book — in which he calls the war in Iraq a “strategic blunder” and accuses Mr. Bush of engaging in “self-deception” — dominated the airwaves, the White House and a tight-knit group of former aides pushed back. They sought to paint the former press secretary as a disgruntled man trying to redeem his own reputation after long remaining silent about concerns he is suddenly taking public.

 New York Times
Jun 27, 2006 Bush Says Report on Bank Data Was Disgraceful

QUOTE: President Bush on Monday condemned as "disgraceful" the disclosure last week by The New York Times and other newspapers of a secret program to investigate and track terrorists that relies on a vast international database that includes Americans' banking transactions.

 New York Times
Dec 19, 2005 Once-Lone Foe of Patriot Act Has Company

QUOTE: WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 - When Congress passed the antiterrorism bill known as the USA Patriot Act in the fall of 2001, greatly expanding the government's investigative powers, a single senator, Russell D. Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, voted against it....Today, more than 40 Democrats and four Republicans stand with Mr. Feingold as he helps lead a filibuster blocking the act's renewal.

 New York Times
Jul 23, 2005 Stem Cell Bill, Once Seen as a Sure Thing, Is Now Mired in Uncertainty

QUOTE: A measure to expand federal financing for human embryonic stem cell research, passed by the House and once considered a shoo-in for adoption by the Senate, is tangled up in a procedural dispute that will probably delay a vote until fall - and could wind up killing the bill, its chief Republican backer said.

 New York Times
Mar 17, 2004 Inquiry Ordered on Medicare Official's Charge

QUOTE: Tommy G. Thompson, secretary of health and human services, ordered an internal investigation on Tuesday into accusations that the Bush administration had threatened to fire a top Medicare official if he gave data to Congress showing the high cost of the legislation that created prescription drug benefits for the elderly.

New York Times
Nov 01, 2003 3 Suits Filed to Block an Abortion Bill That Bush Intends to Sign

QUOTE: President Bush is expected to sign a federal law banning partial-birth abortion but would it be unconstitutional? Advocacy groups say yes.

 New York Times
Oct 15, 2003 Senate Backs Genetic Privacy Bill

QUOTE: Can insurers and employers use genetic information to deny coverage or jobs? The Senate says no.

 New York Times
Feb 27, 2003 House Is Set to Make Cloning of Humans a Crime

QUOTE: Should the ban (of cloning) pass, it would be a historic decision to criminalize a type of scientific research.

 New York Times
Jul 23, 2002 Debate Over Whether to Defend Animal Tests

QUOTE: To study why drug abusers seem to succumb more quickly to AIDS, Dr. Podell infected cats with the feline AIDS virus, gave them methamphetamines and put them to death, making a target of himself and Ohio State.

 New York Times
Oct 23, 2001 Prompt Response for Politicians, a Slower One for Postal Workers

QUOTE: The [time] disparity between those responses — one involving the country's most prominent politicians and their aides and the other involving people who carry and sort the politicians' mail — drew sharp criticism today...

 New York Times
Sep 03, 2001 New Stem Cell Issue As Congress Returns

QUOTE: "By virtue of his speech, President Bush has fundamentally declared that it is ethical not only to do this research but to fund this research..."

 New York Times
Aug 17, 2001 Patent Laws May Determine Shape of Stem Cell Research

QUOTE: ...federal health officials confront a daunting challenge: United States patent 6,200,806, a claim to the human embryonic stem cell.

 New York Times