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city in a host of battles that has been happening since 2003. It's just for us as Americans, because we've elevated that battle to such high standards ... that it becomes turned into the 'lost cause,' the Vietnam War syndrome."
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In 2014, several Republicans trying to make a return trip to Congress
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- Some former members of Congress are hoping 2014 will be the year of the comeback.
• Congress may have public approval ratings hovering near record lows, but several Republicans who once served in the House are trying to recapture their old seats. Among Democrats, former Rep. Marjorie Margolies, who was bounced from office two decades ago after casting a decisive vote for President Bill Clinton's budget plan, wants to represent the Philadelphia suburbs again.
• Entering the new year, Republicans see a more favorable political landscape with President Barack Obama's political standing weakened after the botched rollout of his signature health care law. Democrats, meanwhile, will try to connect Republican candidates to their old voting records in Congress and the tea party movement, which contributed to last year's government shutdown.
• Republicans currently hold a 31-seat advantage in the House, and some of the comeback efforts could be among the more competitive races in the 2014 congressional elections. As far as some of the ex-lawmakers are concerned, this year will be different.
• "There's a fair amount of buyer's remorse," said Robert Dold, a Republican who represented a suburban Chicago district for one term before losing in 2012.
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Memorial services set for third anniversary of shooting of former US Rep Giffords, others
• PHOENIX (AP) -- Suzi Hileman remembers the attack as if it were yesterday, the fear and gunfire as the shooter unleashed a barrage of bullets on a crowd gathered outside a Tucson supermarket to meet then-U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
• Hileman was shot three times while trying to save her young friend and neighbor, 9-year-old Christina-Taylor Green. The little girl was among six people killed in the Jan. 8, 2011, shooting. Hileman and 12 others, including Giffords, were severely injured.
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