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Gabrielle Giffords: Putting her constituents first

When US Representative Gabrielle Giffords attends the president’s State of the Union address tonight, it will be one of her final acts as a member of Congress. On Sunday afternoon, just over a year after she was shot in the head while meeting with constituents outside a Tucson supermarket, the Arizona congresswoman announced that she would resign from the House this week.

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