President Obama to name Gabby Giffords to Fulbright board

[Tx4obama]

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 that’s 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/

[babylonsister]

1. Good, no, great!! nt

[patrice]

2. Good news!!!

[enough]

3. A very good idea. (nt)

[Auntie Bush]

4. Good of Obama and good for Gabby!

[Cha]

5. This will be so good for her! Thanks PBO and

Tx.

[awoke_in_2003]

6. I hope this doesn't affect...

her battle against the NRA and their lackeys in congress.

[politicasista]

7. Nice idea n/t