Congress Pays Tribute to Victims of Shooting

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Source: The New York Times

As President Obama prepared to head to Arizona Wednesday, the House of Representatives convened to consider a resolution honoring the dead and wounded in the shooting rampage in Tucson that left six dead and 14 wounded on Saturday, including Representative Gabrielle Giffords.

“These are difficult hours for our country,” said Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio.

With his eyes filled with tears, Mr. Boehner described the loss of Gabriel Zimmerman, an aide to Ms. Giffords who was killed in the shooting; Mr. Boehner called him “a public servant of the highest caliber” and “one of our own.”

“At the time of the attack, he was engaged in the most simple and direct of democratic rituals,” Mr. Boehner said, “listening to the people, listening to his neighbors.”

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/13/us/politics/13giffords.html

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Yes, Boehner cried but with good reason this time, okay?

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1. Are you sure he wasn't crying because the hate talkers got called out? nt

[alp227]

2. Good question. I bet that Pelosi would also be sobbing if she still led House n/t