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Congresswoman Giffords sends news on Congress canceling cash for border security.

U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and two colleagues from southwest border states are urging House leaders to restore $701 million in border security funds that were stripped from an appropriations bill last week by the Senate.

“This funding is essential to maintain safe communities on the border and crack down on drug smuggling and other border crime,” the lawmakers wrote in a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer. “We strongly urge you to work with the Senate to reinstate this funding.”

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by Rhonda Bodfield

Arizona Daily Star Pueblo Politics Blog

Democratic U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords says she is outraged at her Senate colleagues for killing $700 million in emergency border security funds from a war funding appropriations bill.

On Thursday night, the Senate voted against some $20 billion in domestic spending that was tacked onto a $59 billion war funding request. The additional projects included stepped-up border security efforts, as well as money for teachers, summer jobs and student loans.

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KVOA

U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday will speak about border security to ranchers from across Arizona who are gathered in Tucson this week for their 106th annual convention.

During the convention, Giffords also will receive the organization’s Public Service Award for her work to secure the border.

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By Elise Viebeck

The Hill.com

Arizona Democrat Gabrielle Giffords used Twitter Friday to express her anger that a border security appropriation in the $59 billion war funding bill was rejected by the Senate Thursday night.

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by Dawn Gilbertson
The Arizona Republic

The tourism fallout from the state’s new immigration law is sparking calls for more political activism by industry members.

At the annual Governor’s Conference on Tourism in Tucson last week, industry leaders encouraged attendees to support politicians who have come to their support in the wake of meeting cancellations and calls for travel boycotts of the state and to vote out anyone they feel has caused some of the damage.

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Phoenix Business Journal

U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., is upset with two federal agencies that canceled Arizona meetings because of the state’s new immigration law.

Giffords – who represents Tucson, Tombstone and Sierra Vista – is writing groups, cities and federal agencies asking them to reconsider boycotts of the state.

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by Dan Nowicki

The Arizona Republic

WASHINGTON – Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is on a letter-writing crusade to counter the economic boycott of Arizona over the state’s controversial immigration law.

Giffords, a two-term Democrat who represents a southern Arizona congressional district, opposes the measure signed April 23 by Gov. Jan Brewer. But Giffords also worries that economic protests ultimately will unfairly punish struggling hospitality workers and businesses rather than the Arizona Legislature.

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By Philip Franchine

Green Valley News

Older workers need congressional help in a tough economy, U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords said Monday as she explained two bills she is introducing.

The congresswoman acknowledged that the bills are unlikely to move toward passage this year because it is an election year, but said she wanted to get them into the legislative process now.

“In 2009, adults 55 and over made up almost 20 percent of the workforce, the highest percentage we’ve ever had,” Giffords said at the Pima Council On Aging in Tucson.

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