Gabrielle Giffords resigns from the House in emotional farewell

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A blog from Commonweal Magazine's editors and contributors, including Paul Baumann, Lawrence S. Cunningham, David Gibson, Cathleen Kaveny, Joseph A. Komonchak, J. Peter Nixon, Margaret O'Brien Steinfels, and Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) had begun making her way up the center aisle, clasping the left hand of Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.) on her [...]

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Gabrielle Giffords resigns from the House in emotional farewell

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Prepare to shed a tear or two. It´s a moving and bittersweet moment, so don´t feel any shame about it. It was a very emotional morning on the House floor today as Arizona Democratic One day before her retirement from the House of Representatives, Rep. The House bade a tearful farewell to Representative Gabrielle Giffords [...]

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John Boehner Crying With Gabrielle Giffords

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John Boehner will welcome a special guest tonight at State of the Union address. His special guests will be including some proponents of the Keystone XL pipeline. Those guests actually have been scheduled to meet President Obama but they were rejected There weren't many dry eyes in the House when Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) bid [...]

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John Kerry sports black eyes, broken nose

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John Kerry, D-Mass. Kerry spokeswoman Jodi Seth said Kiriakou left voluntarily and the staff became aware of the charges on Monday. The office initially said that the allegations predated Kiriakou's service on the committee but changed its statement. Sen. John Kerry made quite an impression on Monday when he appeared at a White House event [...]

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Nancy Pelosi on Newt Gingrich: There is no way he will become President, I …

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by Alex Alvarez | 1:32 pm, January 25th, 2012 Former Speaker Newt Gingrich appeared on NBC's Today show this morning, where he told Ann Curry that, if Nancy Pelosi knows something about him that would keep him from becoming president, she should simply Washington — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is predicting that Democrats will [...]

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