Rep. Stephanie Murphy is helping lead today's Jan. 6 hearing. She told TIME's EricCortellessa about her experience in the Capitol during the riots—and how it had echoes of her childhood under an authoritarianism regime in Vietnam
Rep. Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., listens during the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol hearing in the Cannon House Office Building in Washington on Thursday, June 9, 2022.n the morning of Jan. 6, 2021, one of Rep. Stephanie Murphy’s closest friends in Congress called her, worried about what lay ahead for them over the next few hours.
When the police found the two of them, they sprinted to the underground passage. Sinema remembers seeing her friends arrive with the officers. “Stephanie had a look of terror on her face,” she tells TIME. Murphy recalls being in a state of shock. “I couldn’t believe that here I was, a refugee immigrant who had fled authoritarianism, now trapped in the basement of the Capitol, the place where I thought I would be safest,” she says. “The heart of our democracy.
Right now, though, her priority is the committee’s investigation, which has already exceeded most of Washington’s expectations for not only captivating a national audience, but for making a case for Trump’s culpability—both morally and legally—for the deadly attack. Murphy grew up in Northern Virginia but kept in touch with family members who didn’t make it out of Vietnam. Realizing what her life could have been like had she never made it out fostered her patriotism, she says, a deep sense of gratitude for the freedoms the United States offers.She studied economics as an undergrad at William and Mary and then worked as a strategy and operations consultant at Deloitte to pay off her student loans. After the Sept.
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