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Rep. 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.
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