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A Southern Sudanese woman casts her vote at a polling center in Juba, Southern Sudan, on Monday, Jan. 10, 2011, on the second day of in the Southern Sudan independence referendum. Thousands of people began casting ballots Sunday during a weeklong vote to choose the destiny of this war-ravaged and desperately poor but oil-rich region. The mainly Christian south is widely expected to secede from the mainly Muslim north, splitting Africa's largest country in two. (AP Photo/Pete Muller)
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A Southern Sudanese women casts her vote at a polling center in Juba, Southern Sudan, on Monday, Jan. 10, 2011. About four million Southern Sudanese voters began casting their ballots on Sunday in a weeklong referendum on independence that is expected to split Africa's largest nation in two. (AP Photo/Pete Muller)
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Southern Sudanese wait in line to vote in the Southern Sudan referendum at a polling center in Chicago on Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011. In eight cities across the United States, voters swarmed the makeshift polling places where the weeklong elections were being held. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
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Nyandeng Thongjang inks her finger after casting her vote at a polling center in Chicago on Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011. Southern Sudanese living in the United States traveled to eight polling sites from Phoenix to Boston to cast their votes. This morning marks the first opportunity for Southerners to cast ballots in an independence referendum, the outcome of which will determine if the South secedes from the North to form an independent country. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
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William Obur wears the flag of South Sudan on his head after casting his ballot in the South Sudan referendum election at an out-of-country voting precinct on Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011, in Glendale, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
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Saleh Darelsalam of San Diego places her ballot in the box during a referendum vote on whether South Sudan will become independent from Sudan, at St. James Catholic Church in Glendale, Ariz., on Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011. The polling place in Glendale was one of only eight in the United States. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, David Wallace)
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Daniel Chol, 2, looks around as his mother, Josephena Thal, left, of Phoenix, prepares her ballot in a referendum vote on whether South Sudan will become independent from Sudan, at St. James Catholic Church in Glendale, Ariz., on Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011. The polling place in Glendale was one of only eight in the United States. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, David Wallace)
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President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama join government employees on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Monday, Jan. 10, 2011, to observe a moment of silence for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the other victims of an assassination attempt against her. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama head back into the White House after observing a moment of silence with government employees on South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 10, 2011, to honor those who were killed and injured in the shooting in Tucson, Ariz. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., is in critical condition after being shot in the head. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are joined by government employees on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 10, 2011, to observe a moment of silence for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and the other victims of an assassination attempt against her. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Members of Congress and staff members observe a moment of silence for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Arizona Democrat, and other victims of Saturday's shooting rampage, on Monday, Jan. 10, 2011, on the east steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. At center are Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, D.C. Democrat, and Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II, Missouri Democrat. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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The U.S. Capitol dome backdrops American flags flying at half-staff at the foot of the Washington Monument on the National Mall in Washington, Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011. President Barack Obama ordered flags to be flown at half-staff at the White House and upon all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions until sunset on Jan. 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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As ordered by President Obama, the American flag flies at half-staff over the White House at dawn, in Washington, Monday. Jan. 10, 2011, in observance of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Arizona Democrat, and the other victims of an assassination attempt against her in Saturday's shooting outside a Tucson, Ariz., supermarket. Mrs. Giffords, 40, remained in intensive care at a Tucson hospital after being shot in the head at close range. Among those killed were Arizona's chief federal judge, a 9-year-old girl interested in government, and one of Giffords' aides. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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In this Jan. 5, 2011, file photo, House Speaker John Boehner re-enacts the swearing in of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Arizona Democrat, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Mrs. Giffords was shot in the head on Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011, while meeting with constituents in her district in the area around Tucson. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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Emergency personnel attend to a shooting victim outside a shopping center in Tucson, Ariz. on Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011, where U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Arizona Democrat, and others were shot as the congresswoman was meeting with constituents. (AP Photo/James Palka)
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In this Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011, photo, dead bodies and debris lay on the ground after a shooting involving Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Arizona Democrat, outside a shopping center in Tucson, Ariz. An assassination attempt left the Democratic congresswoman in critical condition, killed Arizona's chief federal judge and five other people and forced Americans to question the toxic legacy of their divisive politics. (AP Photo/James Palka)
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An Investigator photographs the area outside a Safeway store after a gunman targeting Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, Arizona Democrat, opened fire in Tucson, Ariz. on Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011. (AP Photo/James Palka)
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A man sits near the scene of a shooting that involved Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Arizona Democrat, on Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011 in Tucson, Ariz. (AP Photo/Arizona Daily Star, Kelly Presnell)
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Two people embrace each other at the scene where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Arizona Democrat, and others were shot outside a Safeway grocery store in Tucson, Ariz. on Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011.(AP Photo/James Palka)
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FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, left, listens as Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik speaks Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011, in Tucson, Ariz. Mr. Mueller came to Arizona to oversee the investigation of the shooting of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Arizona Democrat, who was shot in the head a day earlier during a speech at a local supermarket. (AP Photo/Matt York)
