Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Opens Her Eyes As Pelosi, Gillibrand and Wasserman Schultz Joyously Watch

Pelosi on Hand When Giffords Opens Eyes
TUCSON— Nancy Pelosi, the House Minority Leader, was in Gabrielle Giffords‘ Hospital room when she opened her eyes for the first time since being shot in the head last Saturday, Obama Administration and congressional aides said. Mrs. Pelosi, along with two other Democrats, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, were in the room, shortly after President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama finished their visit to the hospital, before...

POLITICO: Pelosi Was in the Room When Giffords Opened Her Eyes
It's a borderline violation of the Hippocratic oath, but I'll let the doctors slide on this one. Wax replica of Pelosi greeting Giffords. CORRECTION: That's a photograph. Seriously, though - this is incredibly good news. TUCSON, Ariz. — Simple sentiments, spoken by family and some of her closest friends in Congress, inspired the beautiful “miracle” of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ open eyes Wednesday evening. Surrounded in her Hospital room by her husband, her parents, former ...

Nancy Pelosi was in room when Gabrielle Giffords opened her eyes
Source: Politico Nancy Pelosi was in room when Gabrielle Giffords opened her eyes House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, all close friends of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, were in the Hospital room with the Arizona Democrat when she opened her eyes for the first time since she was shot in the head Saturday during a rampage that killed six in Tucson, Ariz. In a Speech at a University of Arizona service for the Victims of the shootings, President ...

Giffords' Friends in Room When She Opened Eyes
Like this Story? Share it: President Barack Obama's entourage, including congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), follows him and First Lady Michelle Obama to the University Medical Center in Tucson, Ariz., Jan. 12, 2011. Pelosi was apparently with Rep. Giffords when she opened her eyes for the first time Wednesday. (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images) (CBS) President Obama announced in an unscripted moment during his Speech Wednesday at the "Together We Thrive: Tucson and America" memorial, that Rep. ...

Pelosi was in room when Giffords opened her eyes
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, all close friends of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, were in the Hospital room with the Arizona Democrat when she opened her eyes for the first time since she was shot in the head Saturday during a rampage that killed six in Tucson, Ariz. In a Speech at a University of Arizona service for the Victims of the shootings, President Barack Obama broke the news that Giffords, who has been in critical condition si...

Obama: 'Gabby Opened Her Eyes For The First Time' (VIDEO)
In his Speech tonight at a Tucson memorial service for the Victims of last Saturday's shooting, President Obama announced that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) had opened her eyes for the first time today. Obama said Giffords, who is in the intensive care unit recovering from a gunshot wound and Brain Surgery, opened her eyes for the first time just after he and First Lady Michelle Obama visited her. "So I can tell you she knows we are here she knows we love her and she knows we are rooting fo...

Obama: 'I believe we can be better'
President Barack Obama, seeking to gently guide the country towards healing and greater civility, called on Americans Wednesday to pay tribute to the Victims of an Assassination attempt against Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords by bringing a new sense of respect to the nation’s political discourse. “If this tragedy prompts reflection and debate, as it should, let’s make sure it’s worthy of those we have lost,” Obama said, addressing a capacity audience at memorial s...

President Obama: "Gabby opened her eyes" -- Debbie Wasserman Schultz was there
President Barack Obama announced Gabrielle Giffords opened her eyes today while meeting with members of Congress -- including, according to Politico, Debbie Wasserman Schultz . Also in the room, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibran d. All three were in the audience tonight as Obama spoke at the University of Arizona.   ...

President Obama: 'Gabby opened her eyes for the first time'
This day began with ugliness -- let's end it with positive news: And from ABC News: The three lawmakers who witnessed the moment were House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz of Florida, and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York. “We had been telling her that she was inspiring the country with her courage and that we couldn't wait to take her out to pizza and a weekend away,” Gillibrand said later, through a spokeswoman. “Then after she h...

Wasserman Schultz: Palin is being defensive
Katie Couric sat down with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D- NY), Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Rep. Frank Guinta (R-NH), Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-MI), and Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) to talk about the aftermath of the Tucson shooting, and brought up Sarah Palin's video response. An advance look at the interview that will air on the "CBS Evening News with Katie Couric" tonight: Katie Couric: “What is your reaction to some of the things that were include...

Gillibrand To Tucson With Obama (Updated)
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s office just announced the junior senator has boarded Air Force One to travel with President Obama to Tucson, Az. to attend tonight’s memorial service for the Victims of last Saturday’s shooting. Gillibrand, who has spoken often about her friendship with Rep. Gabby Giffords, will join other (unnamed in this Press Release) members of Congress at the University of Arizona Medical Center to visit the congressman’s husband, staff, and other Victims a...

At Arizona memorial, Obama urges a discussion that 'heals'
TUCSON, Ariz. — President Barack Obama played the part of "healer in chief" Wednesday night, honoring the Victims of Saturday's Mass Shooting while seeking to calm an increasingly angry political debate, urging all Americans to stop pointing fingers and "make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.'' "I have come here tonight as an American who, like all Americans, kneels to pray with you today, and will stand b...

Obama calls for an end to 'sharply polarised' US
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at the memorial event, 'Together We Thrive: Tucson and America', at the McKale Memorial Center in Tucson, Arizona, on 12 January 2011. Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images Barack Obama has appealed for an end to the "sharply polarised" debate that has consumed American politics in recent years and provided the backdrop to the aftermath of the bloody Assassination attempt against a congresswoman in Tucson. Speaking at a memorial event i...

Obama: Giffords knows were here
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — President Barack Obama says Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who is fighting for her life in a Tucson, Ariz., Hospital, knows that Americans love her and are rooting for her recovery. The president spoke at a memorial service after he and First Lady Michelle Obama spent time with Giffords and other Victims of Saturday’s shooting rampage. Calling Giffords by her nickname, “Gabby,” the president said: “She knows we love her.” Giffords’ husband...

Obama: Giffords 'knows we're here'
President Barack Obama says Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who is fighting for her life in a Tucson, Ariz., Hospital, knows that Americans love her and are rooting for her recovery. The president spoke at a memorial service after he and First Lady Michelle Obama spent time with Giffords and other Victims of Saturday's shooting rampage. Calling Giffords by her nickname, "Gabby," the president said: "She knows we love her." Giffords' husband, Astronaut Mark Kelly, watched from the front row Wednesday ev...

'Gabby Opened Her Eyes'
President Obama says that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has opened her eyes for the first time since being shot through the head on Saturday. In his remarks at a memorial service in Tucson, Ariz., for the Victims of last Saturday's shooting rampage, Obama hit an emotional high point when he told of Giffords' opening her eyes for the first time not long after his visit to her bedside. "Gabby opened her eyes, so I can tell you: She knows we are here, she knows we love her, and she knows that we are root...

Obama Says Polarized Americans Should Be Talking With Each Other in a Way That Heals
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Summoning the soul of a nation, President Barack Obama on Wednesday implored Americans to honor those slain and injured in the Arizona shootings by becoming better people, telling a polarized citizenry that it is time to talk with each other “in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.” Following a Hospital bedside visit with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the target of the Assassination, he said: “She knows we’re here, and she knows we love her.&...

Obama calls for unity, humility at Tucson memorial
At a memorial for the Victims of the Mass Shooting in Tucson, Ariz., Saturday, President Obama sought to move beyond finger-pointing to healing. He said of 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green, who was killed: 'I want to live up to her expectations.' Speaking at a memorial service at the University of Arizona in Tucson, President Obama honored the Victims of last weekend’s shooting rampage in that city, sharing thoughts about those who had died and lauding the heroic behavior displayed durin...

Obamas Visit Giffords
President and First Lady spend 45 minutes with congresswoman and fellow Victims Wednesday afternoon in Arizona. POTUS visited Congresswoman Giffords and her husband in the ICU on the second floor of the medical center. He stayed from 4.07 until 4.16 pm local time. A nine minute visit. Motorcade rolling from the medical center. More to come on visits. The president and First Lady will see the families of the Victims at the site of the Memorial Service, before it begins, Robert Gibbs said. Motorca...

Obama: Rep. Giffords Opened Her Eyes
(Newscore) - Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) "opened her eyes for the first time," just moment after US President Barack Obama visited her in the Hospital, he revealed at Wednesday's memorial service in Tucson, Ariz., for the Victims of Saturday's shootings. Giffords' husband, Astronaut Mark Kelly, told Obama it happened right after he left the room. "She knows we are here, knows that we love her and knows we are rooting for her through a difficult journey," Obama said. The president ...

Boehner: 'Sacred dialogue of democracy' won't be silenced by Tucson attack
Addressing a Bipartisan prayer service in tribute to the Victims of Saturday's shooting rampage in Tucson, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) vowed that the attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and others at a constituent event would not deter lawmakers from carrying out their civic duties. "No assailant's bullet -- no twisted act of violence or cruelty -- can silence the sacred dialogue of Democracy," Boehner said, according to his prepared remarks. At the prayer service, which was atte...

Abdication of duty
Abdication of Duty by digby So much for Bipartisan healing: Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) turned down an offer by President Barack Obama to travel on Air Force One to Arizona for a memorial service on behalf of the Victims of Saturday’s shooting, a decision that has upset some Democrats. Boehner is instead scheduled to attend a reception on Wednesday night on behalf of Maria Cino, a former top House GOP aide who is seeking the Republican National Committee chairmanship. Boehner is backing C...

Obama: Giffords opens her eyes
TUCSON, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., has opened her eyes for the first time since she was critically wounded in Tucson, President Barack Obama said Wednesday. Addressing a memorial service for six people killed in the shooting Saturday, Obama said he had visited Giffords in the Hospital -- where she was still listed in critical condition -- and told the audience, "Gabby opened her eyes for the first time." GALLERY: The aftermath of the Rep. Giffords shooting Earlier i...

"We Will Heal"
TUCSON--They started lining up in the early morning, and by mid-afternoon, more than 20,000 Tucsonans had queued up under cloudless skies to get into the University of Arizona's McKale Center to pay tribute to the fallen. The unruly line snaked for blocks through the downtown Tucson campus, a motley crowd of Students, skaters, a sizable Hispanic contingent, professionals in business casual and parents shepherding their kids. Many wore Navy blue T-shirts inscribed with "Together We Thrive: Tucson...

At Memorial, Obama Announces Giffords Opened Her Eyes
President Obama speaks at the Tucson, AZ memorial event (AP) NEXT » President Obama spoke at a memorial for those killed and injured in Saturday shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords outside a Tucson, Arizona Supermarket, and told the country, "There is nothing I can say that will fill the sudden hole torn in your hearts. But know this: the hopes of a nation are here tonight. We mourn with you for the fallen," and also referred to the debate, "It's important for us to paus...