After spending over a decade in Congress, Rep. Jackie Speier, a California Democrat, will be retiring. She is one of 55 lawmakers who decided not to run for re-election.
But Speier's road to Washington began in 1978 on a deserted airstrip in Guyana where she lay wounded after being shot five times.
For 22 hours, she lay on the ground bleeding and hurt — afraid that she would never see her family again. "It's informed everything I've done. I mean, it's made me into a fighter and to not take no for an answer," she said.
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