Physicians at University Hospital in Tuscon, Arizona are reporting that Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-Tuscon) is expected to live despite being shot through the head in a shooting at approximately 10 a.m. outside a grocery store in Tuscon.

Rep. Giffords is married and began her service in Congress in 2007.  She is the first Jewish woman to serve in Congress from Arizona.  Since first taking office in 2007, Gabrielle has established herself as one of the most centrist members of Congress. She is a member of the Blue Dog Coalition and New Democrat Coalition working for fiscally conservative, pro-business economic policies. Click here to read more about Gabrielle’s work on job creation, deficit reduction and tax relief.

Gabrielle serves on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and theSubcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. Since taking office, she has fought to fix our broken immigration system by increasing the ‘boots on the ground’ along the border through deployment of National Guard troops; providing those forces and border residents 21^st century communications technology; aggressively prosecuting border smuggling and creating a path to legalization that requires illegal immigrants to pass a criminal background check, pay back taxes and fines, learn English and go to the back of the line behind those waiting to enter the U.S. legally.