A fiscal year would be as opposed to a calander year, IOW, from May to May in this instance.
The federal government's fiscal year is October 1 to September 30. Are you referring to the fact that in general a fiscal year can refer to any two sets of calendar years in a row? In other words, two fiscal years simply means 24 consecutive months, right?
I was, I see now, inaccurate in my original post. Thank you for pointing out the error on my part. But this still means the Globe is distorting because they do not tell you to which fiscal year they are reffering. We might give them the benefit of the doubt that they are not distorting the truth, that they are referring to the proper fiscal year (May to May) if it were not for the fact that we know that for the proper FY's in question, Bush had enough points (and therefore served during each one).