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PHOENIX — Representative Gabrielle Giffords has begun speaking, an aide said Wednesday, telling hospital personnel at one point that she wanted some toast — an encouraging sign a month after being shot in the head at a political event outside Tucson.

“She’s speaking more and more every day,” C.J. Karamargin, the congresswoman’s press secretary, said Wednesday. “One of her most recent statements was a request for toast.”

Ms. Giffords’s husband, Mark E. Kelly, said in a Facebook message on Tuesday, exactly one month since the Jan. 8 shooting, that she continued to improve markedly. “The doctors say she is recovering at lightning speed considering her injury, but they aren’t kidding when they say this is a marathon process,” he wrote. “There are encouraging signs everyday though. Gabby’s appetite is back and — even though it’s hospital food — she’s enjoying three meals a day. ‘’

Captain Kelly, a Navy officer and an astronaut who announced last week that he planned to return to space, released photographs of his wife’s hospital room at the Institute for Rehabilitation and Research at Memorial Hermann hospital in Houston, where she is undergoing rehabilitation. There is an American flag hanging on her door, notes from well-wishers, a pendant from the University of Arizona and a photograph of a rocket launch on the wall.

Mr. Karamargin said Ms. Giffords’s staff continues to run the office, awaiting her return. “We’re not surprised by her improvement,” he said. “She has a rigorous schedule that includes speech therapy, and she’s working very hard at it. We know her and had no doubt she was going to fight her way through this.”

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President Obama will sign the repeal of the military’s ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy into law Wednesday morning, and may hold a news conference before leaving for Hawaii later in the week, his press secretary, Robert Gibbs, said on Monday.

Mr. Gibbs said a news conference was “certainly possible.” But the president’s vacation schedule remains in flux, as Mr. Obama awaits the end of the Congressional session. Mr. Gibbs said the president was now expected to leave Wednesday or Thursday.

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