Commemorating International Women's Day (40 images)

Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) appear together at a US Capitol reception for Jewish American Heritage Month May 19, 2009, sponsored by the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington and the Jewish Federations of North America. The three women were reunited Wednesday in Gifford's hospital room in Tucson. In his public remarks that night, President Obama told of Gifford's opening her eyes for the first time since her shooting Saturday, while her colleagues and the Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi were all in her room. UPI/Ron Sachs/Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington and the Jewish Federations of North America