situation being taken, but when it comes to the work of the con cities yenlts, how does it get done? reporter: these are not like every job on the planet right now. in congress you have a very large staff that s able to do most of the work for you. they do constituency service third quarter do meetings. giffor giffords staff has been working hard and doing what they can. in a situation like this which is happily very rare have a lot of sympathy for what their representative is going through. it s, again, extremely rare for somebody to be extremely incapacitated and pulled out. in 1980 a congressman in maryland had a heart attack, won an election, but her family decided it was better for her to go out. the norm is to stick in there as long as everyone s comfortable with it. the work goes unabated. it s something that people deal with as they look for updates on