Fox News: U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will submit her formal letter of resignation from the House of Representatives tomorrow, promising, in her letter, “I will recover and will return.”
Giffords, who has represented Southern Arizona in the House for five years, will submit letters of resignation tomorrow morning to House Speaker John Boehner and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer. Her resignation will be effective at the end of the day tomorrow.
Giffords’ ends her resignation letter with the words: “Every day I am working hard. I will recover and will return and we will work together again for Arizona and for all Americans.”
The complete text of her resignation letter as well as a pdf of the letter will be released tomorrow after it is formally submitted.
Here is how the process is expected to unfold tomorrow:
Sometime between 9:45 and 10:30 a.m. (EST), Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi will ask unanimous consent from her colleagues to speak out of order. Pelosi then will discuss Giffords’ career in the House.
Following that, either Boehner or Republican Leader Eric Cantor will make brief remarks about Giffords’ service followed by Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer.
Then Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Giffords’ closest personal friend in the House, will read the congresswoman’s letter of resignation from the well of the House. Wasserman Schultz will be joined by Giffords and a bipartisan group of Giffords’ colleagues.
Giffords then will hand her letter of resignation to the speaker.
