Honorable Gabrielle Giffords
United States Representative, Arizona, Democrat
Representative Giffords, of the Eighth District of Arizona, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2006. She serves on the House Foreign Relations Committee and its Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. The following is excerpted from Representative Giffords’s statement during a June 19, 2009, House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere hearing on U.S. efforts to combat arms trafficking to Mexico. Last February, six colleagues and I requested the GAO report to look at the flow of firearms across the border, and in contradiction to some comments that were made earlier, I am very proud of…
