Barber, former Giffords aide, sworn in as House member

Ron Barber, who almost died in the Arizona shooting that wounded former Arizona representative Gabrielle Giffords, was sworn in Tuesday as a member of the House.

      Barber is a Democrat who won a special election to succeed Giffords, his former boss.

He was shot twice, once in the face and once in the leg, in the January 2011 shootings in Tucson that left six dead and nearly killed his predecessor.

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Barber defeated Republican Jesse Kelly, who narrowly lost to Giffords in 2010. Giffords was in Tucson during the campaign's final days to help her former district director.