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Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand
(D-NY) and Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) appear
together at a US Capitol reception for Jewish American Heritage Month
May 19, 2009, sponsored by the Jewish Historical Society of Greater
Washington and the Jewish Federations of North America. The three
women were reunited Wednesday in Gifford's hospital room in Tucson.
In his public remarks that night, President Obama told of Gifford's
opening her eyes for the first time since her shooting Saturday, while
her colleagues and the Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi were all in her
room. Photo by Ron Sachs. H/O by the Jewish Historical Society of
Greater Washington and the Jewish Federations of North America. Use
is free and unrestricted.
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