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Related: About this forumPresident Obama to name Gabby Giffords to Fulbright board
Obama to name Giffords to Fulbright board
(CNN) President Barack Obama plans to appoint former Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords to the board of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship program, the White House announced Thursday.
Giffords, who resigned from Congress after being wounded in a 2011 mass shooting, was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in Chihuahua, Mexico in 1996.
The former congresswoman from Arizona has been heavily involved in the gun control debate with her husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly.
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The Fulbright program, sponsored by the State Department, provides grants to students and scholars in an educational exchange system thats active in 155 countries. Congress established the 12-member board to oversee the program, as authorized by the Fulbright-Hays Act of 1961.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/16/obama-to-name-giffords-to-fulbright-board/
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President Obama to name Gabby Giffords to Fulbright board (Original Post)
Tx4obama
May 2013
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babylonsister
(171,065 posts)1. Good, no, great!! nt
patrice
(47,992 posts)2. Good news!!!
enough
(13,259 posts)3. A very good idea. (nt)
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)4. Good of Obama and good for Gabby!
Cha
(297,220 posts)5. This will be so good for her! Thanks PBO and
Tx.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)6. I hope this doesn't affect...
her battle against the NRA and their lackeys in congress.
politicasista
(14,128 posts)7. Nice idea n/t