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Rep. Gabrielle Giffords officially resigned from Congress on January 25, 2012, one year after she was shot in the head in a Tucson shooting attack that left six people dead.
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Former U.S. congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her former aide, Democrat Ron Barber, who is running for her former post, look on as her husband retired astronaut Mark Kelly speaks onstage at the \"Get Out the Vote Concert and Rally\" election campaign event for Barber at the Rialto Theatre in Tucson, Arizona June 9, 2012. REUTERS/Samantha Sais (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)
Retired astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of former U.S. congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, and her former aide Democrat Ron Barber, who is running for her previous post, both help to adjust Giffords' microphone as she speaks onstage in support of Barber, at his \"Get Out the Vote Concert and Rally\" election campaign event at the Rialto Theatre in Tucson, Arizona June 9, 2012. REUTERS/Samantha Sais (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS)
Arizonans go to the polls Tuesday in the first congressional elections of 2012, with Democrats expected to hold onto the seat vacated by Gabrielle Giffords, pictured in May 2012, after she survived an assassination attempt. (AFP Photo/Don Emmert)
BEVERLY HILLS, CA - MAY 23: Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and husband astronaut Mark Kelly attend the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Annual National Tribute Dinner Honoring Jerry Bruckheimer at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on May 23, 2012 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Valerie Macon/Getty Images)
FILE - This Jan. 23, 2012 file photo shows U.S. Rep Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., touring the Gabrielle Giffords Family Assistance Center, one of her favorite charities, with her staffer Ron Barber in Tucson, Ariz. Barber, a top aide to former Congresswoman Giffords, is expected announce his candidacy to run in a special election to serve as an interim replacement for the Arizona Democrat who was wounded in a shooting rampage a year ago. (AP Photo/Matt York, Pool, File)
Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (R) gestures as her chief of staff Pia Carusone gives remarks for her after Giffords received the Intrepid Salute to Women Award from Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum during the museum's annual \"Salute to Freedom\" dinner in New York, May 24, 2012. REUTERS/Keith Bedford (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS)
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta (L) greets former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, at the Pentagon in Virginia in this handout taken February 10, 2012, and released to Reuters February 13, 2012. REUTERS/Chad J. McNeeley/Department of Defense/Handout
This video image provided by House Television shows Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. and House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, on the floor of the House on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012. Giffords resigned from the House on Wednesday amid tears, tributes and standing ovations, more than a year after she was gravely wounded by a would-be assassin. (AP Photo/House Television)
This video image provided by House Television shows Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. on the floor of the House on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012. Giffords resigned from the House on Wednesday amid tears, tributes and standing ovations, more than a year after she was gravely wounded by a would-be assassin. (AP Photo/House Television)
This video image provided by House Television shows Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., accompanied by Democratic National Committee Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., walks on the floor of the House on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012. Giffords resigned from the House on Wednesday amid tears, tributes and standing ovations, more than a year after she was gravely wounded by a would-be assassin. (AP Photo/House Television)
This video image provided by House Television shows Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. on the floor of the House on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012. Giffords resigned from the House on Wednesday amid tears, tributes and standing ovations, more than a year after she was gravely wounded by a would-be assassin. (AP Photo/House Television)
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 25: Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (C) is excorted down the hall by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) after she resigned from the House of Representatives on Capital Hill on January 25, 2012 in Washington, DC. Giffords resigned from Congress to focus on her recovery from a gunshot wound to the head she received last year from a lone gunman in Arizona. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
Mark Kelly leans on the shoulder of his wife, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, at a memorial vigil remembering the victims and survivors of the shooting that wounded Giffords, 12 others and killed six one year ago Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012, in Tucson, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
This video image provided by the Office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shows Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, walking. Giffords announced Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012 she intends to resign from Congress this week to concentrate on recovering from wounds suffered in an assassination attempt a little more than a year ago. (AP Photo/Office of Gabrielle Giffords)
PREMIUM CONTENT--HIGHER RATES APPLY FOR NON-PHOTOSTREAM MEMBERS - U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and her husband, retired Capt. Mark Kelly, meet both active and retired airmen after serving a Thanksgiving meal to troops at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2011, in Tucson, Ariz. (AP Photo/Matt York)
In this image released by the White House, Navy Capt. Mark Kelly hugs his wife Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., after he received the Legion of Merit from Vice President Joe Biden during Kelly's retirement ceremony in the Secretary of War Suite in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/The White House, David Lienemann)
In this photo provided by the office of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., Giffords, second from left, and fellow shooting survivor Ron Barber unveil a memorial plaque in honor of slain staffer Gabe Zimmerman, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012, in Tucson, Ariz. At left is Giffords' husband, Mark Kelly. (AP Photo/Office of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords)
