For the first time since she was shot in the head last January, we’re hearing the voice of Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords.

In an exclusive interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer, Giffords, 41, talks about her long, and difficult road to recovery.

"It's difficult,"  Giffords tells Sawyer in an interview for a special edition of ABC's 20/20, scheduled to air Monday, November 14. (ABC previewed the story on Friday’s Good Morning America.)

In the special, Sawyer also talks with Giffords' husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, and reveals he shot hours of home video footage following her slow and painful recovery.

Almost seven months after being shot in the head Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords returned to the House of Representatives to vote on the debt ceiling bill and RadarOnline.com has video of her triumphant return.

Monday evening Giffords was given a standing ovation and a huge showing of support by her colleagues on the House floor.  Wearing glasses and with very short dark hair the Democrat voted in support of the debt deal.  She was smiling as she was greeted warmly by her fellow representatives, returning to work for the first time since she was shot.

Giffords was critically wounded in a horrifying rampage on January 8 when Jared Lee Loughner allegedly opened fire on an event she was hosting in a Tucson grocery store parking lot.  Fourteen people were wounded in the shooting spree and six people died, including a nine-year-old girl, a federal judge and one of Giffords' staffers.

Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords has reached another milestone in her remarkable recovery --  she’s returned home to continue healing from a horrific head wound caused by a crazed gunman five months ago.

Although Giffords was discharged Wednesday, she will make daily trips to TIRR Memorial Hermann, the Houston hospital that has cared for since she was injured.

PHOTOS: First Pictures Of Gabby Giffords Since Shooting

The first pics of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords since her shooting five months ago have been released. They were posted early Sunday on her Facebook page.

PHOTOS: First Pictures Of Gabby Giffords Since Shooting

The first thing you notice?  Her smile is still there.

Wearing a pixie haircut and glasses, the Congresswoman is seen alone in one of the images, and with an unidentified older woman in the other, Giffords was shot in the head at point blank range on January 8.  Six people were killed and 13 injured in the rampage at an Arizona shopping center.

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Jared Lee Loughner, 22, was arrested at the scene and charged with the crimes. He has pleaded not guilty and has been ruled not competent to stand trial.

A judge last month ordered him into a mental health facility for four months of treatment.  There will then be another competency hearing to determine if he can ever stand trial.

PHOTOS: Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords With Her Family

At the same time, Giffords' rehabilitation continues at a slow place. Her Chief of Staff Pia Carusone said last week that her speaking ability is still limited, and if her recovery were to stop here, "it would not be nearly the quality of life she had before."

The hope is that she will continue to improve for many months to come.

PHOTOS: Gabrielle Giffords With Her Husband & Friends

The Congresswoman and her astronaut husband Mark Kelly have been a study in bravery and class throughout their ordeal.

Her D.C.l colleague Anthony Weiner could take a page from their book.

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Jared Lee Loughner has been declared mentally incompetent to stand trial for the mass shooting that injured Congresswoman Gabby Giffords in January.

The decision came down Wednesday following a bizarre situation in a Tucson, Arizona courtroom when Loughner began shouting and was removed from the proceedings.

“Thank you for the freak show.  She died in front of me.  You are changing it,” Loughner shouted at the judge.

Jared Lee Loughner, the man accused of fatally shooting six people and wounding 13 others, including U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords at an Arizona supermarket on January 8, has pleaded not guilty to a new,expanded 49-count indictment, RadarOnline.com has learned.

Loughner appeared in a Tucson courtroom Wednesday wearing a khaki prison uniform, belly chains - his shaved head shown in previous mug shots now shows the growth of dark hair. When asked if his name was Jared Lee Loughner, he answered that it was and his attorney, Judy Clarke, asked the judge to enter the plea to the new indictment on his behalf.

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It’s been just over one week since Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head outside of a grocery store during a political rally in Tuscon, Arizona.

Giffords’ husband of three years, US Navy captain and astronaut, Mark E Kelly, has kept a vigil by his wife’s bedside at the Tuscon University Medical Center ever since, barely leaving her for one minute.

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In an exclusive interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer that airs tonight, Kelly opens up about his wife’s recovery, his optimism for her future and how, even though she is battling for her own life she still manages to look out for other people.

Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ doctors have backed up her husband’s claims regarding her ‘miraculous’ recovery, revealing that her physical rehabilitation treatment has already begun and amazingly, disclosing that she could be leaving the hospital in ‘days’.

In a press conference which airs during an ABC 20/20 special tonight, Dr G Michael Lemole Jr, Chief of Neurosurgery at Tuscon University Medical Center spoke about Giffords’ husband, Mark E Kelly’s claim that his wife recognizes him and has proved it by playing with his wedding ring – something she used to do before her injury.

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“It does imply that she is recognizing him,” he said. “And that she’s interacting in an old familiar way with him.”

Authorities recovered nearly two dozen surveillance tapes from both inside and outside the Arizona Safeway grocery store where Jared Lee Loughner went on a wild shooting spree, and the footage is graphic and disturbing.

Sources who have viewed the tapes told the Washington Post that Loughner is seen shooting Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in the face, above the left eye, from just two or three feet away.

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“He walks up, goes bang. It’s very clear,” a source said.

“He is maybe 24 to 36 inches away. You can see her go straight down.”

Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ husband spoke out for the first time since his wife was shot in the Arizona massacre, expressing empathy for the shooters parents, RadarOnline.com has learned.

PHOTOS: Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords With Her Husband & Family

“You know, I don’t think it’s their fault,” Gifford’s husband, Mark Kelly, told Diane Sawyer during an interview with ABC News.

“I’d like to think I’m a person that’s…somewhat forgiving…they’ve got to be hurting in this situation…as much as anybody.

“And they must, I’m sure they love their son…they must be, you know, as distraught over this as we are.”