red states rule
08-02-2011, 03:18 AM
After being shot in the head, Rep Gabrielle Giffords returned to the House last night to cast her vote on the debt bill. This is truely the only bright spot in this mess
I hope she continues on her road to recovery
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Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Gabrielle_Giffords) (D-Ariz.), grievously wounded by a gunman in her home town of Tucson seven months ago, made a surprise return to the House floor Monday evening, to cheers and hugs from her colleagues.
One legislator dropped his dignity and climbed on a chair to see what the fuss was about. Another, seeing the commotion, assumed the president had arrived. But it was Giffords, with shorter hair than when she left, a bandage on her right wrist and the scars of trauma still visible on her head.
But she wore her congressional ID pin. She had come to cast a vote to raise the nation’s debt ceiling.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/giffords-returns-to-congress-to-vote-on-debt-deal/2011/08/01/gIQALojfoI_story.html
I hope she continues on her road to recovery
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Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Gabrielle_Giffords) (D-Ariz.), grievously wounded by a gunman in her home town of Tucson seven months ago, made a surprise return to the House floor Monday evening, to cheers and hugs from her colleagues.
One legislator dropped his dignity and climbed on a chair to see what the fuss was about. Another, seeing the commotion, assumed the president had arrived. But it was Giffords, with shorter hair than when she left, a bandage on her right wrist and the scars of trauma still visible on her head.
But she wore her congressional ID pin. She had come to cast a vote to raise the nation’s debt ceiling.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/giffords-returns-to-congress-to-vote-on-debt-deal/2011/08/01/gIQALojfoI_story.html