BREAKING: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on House floor [View All]

Source: cnn

BREAKING: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on House floor
By: CNN Political Unit
(CNN)–Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords entered the House chamber Monday. According to a tweet from her account she "Has returned from Washington to support a bipartisan bill to prevent economic crisis.

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Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona made a surprise return to Washington Monday to vote in favour of an agreement to raise the debt limit
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/8668845/US-debt-crisis-live.html


http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20086619-503544.html
Applause broke out in the House chamber as Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., made a surprise entrance to vote for the measure. Giffords has been absent from the House since January when she was shot in the head in a shooting rampage.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/08/House-debt-limit-vote-John-Boehner--179529/1?csp=34news
http://www.kold.com/story/15189442/giffords-in-dc-for-debt-ceiling-vote

Arizona Democrat Gabrielle Giffords, victim of a shooting by a deranged gunman in Tucson, has returned to the House floor to cast a crucial vote in favor of the debt ceiling compromise.

Aside from the pleasure of seeing Rep. Giffords return to her duties at all, it is a a pleasure to see her choose this opportunity to do so. A better symbol for the moderate Democrat could hardly be conceived of.

The entire House has been giving her a well-deserved standing ovation.
http://themoderatevoice.com/118460/breaking-rep-giffords-returns-to-cast-crucial-vote/


http://twitter.com/#!/Rep_Giffords/status/98169302674452480