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WASHINGTON — President Bush reached his lowest approval rating yet in the Associated Press-Ipsos poll today as only 30 percent said they like the job he is doing.

Congress' approval fell to just 22 percent.

Both marks dropped by 4 percentage points since early January.

Approval of Bush by Republicans was at 61 percent, an all-time low. His previous low among Republican was 65 percent last month.

Only 28 percent of them expressed strong approval.

About one in 10 Democrats and three in 10 independents gave Bush positive marks.

Since the advent of modern polling, President Truman had the lowest rating ever, a 23 percent approval rating in the Gallup Poll in 1952.

President Nixon reached 24 percent during the summer of 1974 before he resigned during the Watergate scandal.

The historic low for Congress was 18 percent in the Gallup poll in early 1992 during the furor over lawmakers who bounced House bank checks.

The AP-Ipsos poll was conducted Feb. 4-6 and involved telephone interviews with 1,006 adults. It had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.