take this opportunity to express my personal gratitude. >> he is retiring the end of the term. we have to say, ken, a wonderful tribute to american medicine and resilience to see the woman that was shot in the head so recently, to come back on the floor, it is a statement about our national character in this one personal way. this is certainly a distinction from what we have been watching, the pettiness of the debate that's gone on for weeks now. >> it really is the one redeeming moment at the end of this nasty partisan and high profile dispute that in some ways is a microcosm for the way congress works, not the gabrielle giffords coming back,