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1. “When I left the Department of Defense, I had no idea that I would one day be running for Congress. I know, though, that I am somebody who deeply loves this country. I believe in public service as a way to pay back the debt that my family owes it. And so, you know, if there's an opportunity to serve this country at some point, I'm sure I will be interested in it.”

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2. “I miss being a part of something larger than myself, whether that was working at the Department of Defense or being in Congress. I can't say looking at the way this Congress has unfolded, I miss sitting on the floor wondering whether or not we're going to take votes or the dysfunction that is on display right now.”

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3. “I believe that we live our lives in chapters, and my children are nine and 13 right now. And I felt the need to be more present. And it was just really hard to be a part of their lives at a time when I think it's more important that they have me around, even if they don't want that.”

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4. “When all of that is over, Americans have a responsibility to say, okay, and accept the results of the election. And what's really concerning now is that there are people who are saying that who won't commit to accepting the results of the upcoming election. That's not the way that democracies work.”

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5. “Probing attack is essentially one where people attack to suss out where the weak spots are so that when they come back for the real attack, they are better able to destroy the defenses. And I find that January 6th may have, I think it could have been a probing attack in the sense that they weren't successful in overturning a free and fair election, but they certainly know where the weaknesses are and what to do better next time if there's a desire to challenge an election. And I think that's concerning to me. Our democracy depends on people participating in the electoral process, but when that's all over and all of your routes to recount votes or to contest things in courts, all”

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6. “Yeah, as we continued to hold depositions and the picture became clearer and clearer that it wasn't just a bunch of people who arrived that had gotten out of hand. Although I have to say that I listened to a lot of the people who are household names, but I also listened in on the depositions of the hundreds of people who showed up that day and then found themselves in a lot. And a lot of those people genuinely believed that they were being patriotic, that they were defending their country. And their commander-in-chief had asked them to come. They were doing what they were supposed to be doing as Americans. Some of them don't have any remorse and some of them really wish they hadn't been so caught up in it because it's really ruined their lives.”

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7. “Did learn a lot. We learned that yes, while there were areas where there could be better coordination for law enforcement, January 6th was very much a deliberate last stand to overturn a free and fair election orchestrated by the former president.”

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8. “Security perspective, I thought, gosh, January 6th just showed all of our adversaries that we are a soft target. And so we have to find ways to reinforce the capital. And I really thought that's what this commission was going to be focused on and look at.”

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9. “So, in the aftermath of January 6th, I was one of the first members to call for a 9-11 style commission to investigate what had happened as we tried to make sure that nothing like 9-11 would ever happen again. And so to me, I thought of January 6th in a similar manner. And to be honest, when I called for commission, I had no idea that January 6th was the culmination of weeks and months of activity by the Trump administration that led to that day. I honestly thought maybe it was a day that, you know, a riot that got out of hand and that there were things that we as law enforcement, the different people who are responsible for law enforcement in the Washington Capitol area could improve on so that, you know, and then I also thought about it from a national”

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10. “Wasn't great. I mean, as you can imagine, if you're an American, you're sitting at home looking at your spouse's place of work Under siege.”

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11. “Just came across a little video my son had recorded that day, and he's getting ready for bed probably six or seven at the time and he just was like, you know, I'm glad you're okay and I'm sorry you have to go back to work because we knew that we would be voting all night. And I guess my husband had at least relayed that much to him. But I think that was hard. It was hard for everybody who has family to imagine that they might not get to see their kids again”

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12. “We're very close, and I was pretty upset that day that he didn't call to say, Hey, are you okay? But rather it was a text message about the politics of what was happening out there”

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13. “Our country is super divided right now in politics. People rationalize things depending on what their politics are. And to get that message from somebody who I'm close to and really underscored for me why we were in that kind of moment is that people are really divided in this country”

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14. “Was scary because we were so close to where all of the riders were really trying to break through the doors. And so we could hear it all. We could hear the capital police officer struggling. We could hear them yelling at each other. We were in the middle of all that chaos. And I think as an American, it was just heart-wrenching for me to be in the heart of the Capitol and to have my fellow Americans trying to pound down the doors, hurting law enforcement and hunting for people like me. So my brother is a Trump Republican and he texted me in the midst of all of this. And I think he didn't really understand the severity of all of it or where I was in the midst of all of it. But he texted me something fairly political. And I just about lost my mind. But it also underscored for me that”

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15. “And one officer who had just come off the line looked at us and was like, you two shouldn't be down here. And I thought it was too late now. We can't get back to my office. And so we just got to the hideaway and were locked in there for a while. And we heard when the protesters broke into the building, we could hear them stampeding above us. Senator Cinema, she texted us and said they're evacuating them. And once she got to the safe room, she said, I'm going to send a team for you, send a team of capital police for you. And so sure enough, they came not.”

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16. “And so we on January 6th and I had made plans on how I would enter the building not going through the main doors. I had basically come to work in civilian clothes and shoes that I could move in. So I had sneakers on and I knew I had work clothes at the office that I could change into. I'd been through a few of these protests before and I think that's why I took the extra precautions. When things started happening where they were letting us know that there were bombscares or bomb threats and they had evacuated the cannon building and people were all piled into the Longwolf building. That's when we made our way down to the hideaway thinking that was going to be the safest place for us to be. And as we got down to the hideaway, the doors were already starting to bulge and the officers were down there trying to hold the door.”

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17. “So, in the run up to January 6th, we had gotten enough news coverage to know that it might be a difficult day with protesters and such. And so the three of us had planned that we would stay in Senator Cinema's hideaway, which was in the basement of the Capitol. And that would leave us equidistance to the house floor and the Senate floor. packed a go bag and had my staff drop it at my office before January 6th and in it had a couple changes of clothes things I might need if I weren't I wasn't able to leave the building you were that”

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18. “It's a real embarrassment and a shame that the Ukrainians have fought so hard. And we haven't had to send a single person to carry on that fight. We're just providing them with the equipment they need to defend their country. And now we're losing the will to do even that. That's embarrassing, I think, for a country that is a leading democratic nation at another.”

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19. “Right. And when I talk to my European counterparts, they tell us that this is an existential threat for them, that this is something that they do believe that his ambitions are to continue to roll through Europe. And they're really concerned, especially with those NATO, the bordering NATO countries. And so I think if we can't get this package, and I regret that this Congress allowed this funding to the negotiation around the funding to bleed into a presidential political year, because I know how hard it is to get things done. And I think they're almost out of time if they aren't already to get funding done. And I am concerned that if we have a Trump administration, there will be no more funding. And who knows what will happen with our NATO alliance? And I think all of those things are deeply, deeply concerning to me.”

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20. “Yeah, I think the delay in providing Ukraine with the additional aid is really devastating, not just for the Ukrainians, but for American leadership in the world. I think that our politicians haven't done a good job explaining to the American people what is in it for us when we stand with democracies like Ukraine.”

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21. “So that's an ironic outcome here. For me, I'm still running my pack. It's called the Center Aisle Pack. And I think the way out of this is to elect more center-left, center-right people, people who are there not to scream from the wings, but to try to work from the middle. And that's what my pack focuses on trying to do is identify people like that.”

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22. “Yeah, the climate there has resulted in the most ineffective Congress in recent history. I think they've been able to pass very few things. And I think that's a disservice to the American people. They want to see a government that functions. One thing, though, that is a positive side is that because the margins are so narrow and because the Republicans have had a hard time managing their right flank and they have two extremists on the rules committee, which is this arcane committee that decides what gets to be voted on on the floor. Ironically, it has pushed the Republican leadership to only be able to pass things that can pass in a bipartisan way that can be done under suspension where they don't have to go through the rules committee, but that requires democratic votes in a lot of them.”

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23. “True bill from the Build Better package so that we could get infrastructure dollars out the door as soon as possible and to get a win. And that was another one of those fights that I will remember for a long time, you know, trying to do what I thought was pragmatic and reasonable for my constituents, but didn't sit well with my own party.”

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24. “On immigration was one of the key areas where we had some challenges because I was supportive of the bipartisan border package that had passed the Senate and wanted to see us get that passed into law so that we could send money to the border as soon as possible, both for the humanitarian needs, but also so that we could do a better job with securing our border. And I think that was really hard. You know, I thought fighting with Republicans was sort of part for the course. It was harder when you had to fight with Democrats. It always felt a little bit harsher because you expected Republicans to come after you. You didn't really expect for Democrats to come after you. And I think, you know, when Biden was president, I was part of an effort to try to separate the infrastructure.”

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25. “Yeah, I mean, I went to Washington with the perspective that I couldn't wait for Washington to look the way I wanted it to as far as who held the White House and the Senate and the House. I just needed to figure out how to work with the people who were there. And so I did work quite a bit with the Trump White House, which kind of became an ironic thing when I ended up sitting on the January 6th Select Committee. But I believed in calling Balsam strikes and where I could work with him. I had a responsibility to my constituents to do so and where I thought he was wrong. I had a responsibility to stand up and say so.”

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26. “Probably live with. And at that point, I knew that if I could get it into the appropriations bill, there wouldn't be objections by.”

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27. “When I got elected, Trump was elected too, and I went to Washington in a completely Republican held Washington. And so I was trying to think about what I could convince conservative colleagues to support. And I thought at a bare minimum, let's get the facts. And so I introduced the bill to lift the 22-year ban on gun violence research. And it was after the Parkland shooting that I got Republican member Carlos Curbello to be my first Republican to sign on to the bill. And then I got more Republicans. And then I was invited to the White House to talk to the president about gun violence. And I pressed him on my bill, my proposal. And as I was leaving that meeting, Vice President Pence says to me of all the proposals that were discussed today, here's one week.”

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28. “And the incumbent took a check from the NRA just a couple days after the shooting happened. And so I thought to myself, well, why don't I run? And I don't think, I'm not sure I thought I could win, but I felt like the community deserved an opportunity to have a debate about the issues that mattered to them. So I, and I actually wasn't even a Democrat. So I had to change my voter registration from independent to Democrat on a Monday. I announced on a Wednesday and I filed on the Friday at the end of June, which was the very last day you could file to run in the congressional race. And if I hadn't filed the incumbent would have run unopposed.”

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29. “Needed to find a candidate for this recently redistricted seat, and I agreed to help them find somebody in the community that would run. And at some point in those conversations, they were like, well, why don't you do this? And I said, well, because I have two kids, two jobs, I was teaching at a local liberal arts school in addition to my day job. you know, I'm not really interested in politics. And then we got to June of 2016 and they still didn't have somebody who was going to run against this longtime Republican incumbent. And then the Pulse Nightclub shooting happens in my community. And 49 innocent people lose their lives to an act of terrorism, but also an act of hate. And I thought to myself, you know, you can't have the kinds of people at the highest level spewing all kinds of hateful rhetoric.”

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30. “Yeah, 90 seven percent of American athletic apparel was manufactured in China, although with recent tariffs and changes over the last couple of years, that's shifted to other places as people look to diversify where they produce. But yeah, at the time, you know, he produced them in China just like everybody else did. But yes, it became a political cudgel. I was always okay with the attacks and the sacrifices that I made personally. I really didn't love it when they drugged my family into the mess.”

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31. “Women who play softball come in all shapes and sizes, and none of them look like they enjoy wearing their pants. So we just basically rebuilt them. We rebuilt the waist so that it sat a little lower in the front, but had coverage in the back. We changed materials. We made all these changes to the way women's pants, women's self-wall pants are constructed and got it patented.”

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32. “Yeah, so I used to try them on for him. I was like FIP model, his gear. And I remember putting on the softball pants and I don't play softball. The women's softball pants and I'm awful. Like who are you selling these to? These are uncomfortable and they're just really awful. And he said, well, this is what everybody sells. It's just men's pants made smaller in the industry. They call it pink it and shrink it. And so But at that time, women's athleisure was really starting to take off and women were expecting more out of their athletic clothes. And so I said to him, I was like, these are awful. And he said, well, you know, put your money where your mouth is. Like, help me make them not awful. And so I had grown up at my mom's knee basically. And she was a tailor and a seamstress. So I knew my way around patterns and sewing. And so I did a bunch of research and I saw.”

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33. “Was a hard decision because I was at a job that I loved, but he had gotten a chance to basically start and run his own business, and it was in central Florida. And so while I was flying around to commands all around the world and doing my job, he was going to Florida. And we at first thought, oh, we'll do, we're modern couple. We'll just commute to our jobs and it'll be great. got to a point where you know really the we were waving at each other in airports um as we passed by and it wasn't really tenable so i i left the department and went back to the private sector in florida”

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34. “Yes, I think that was one of the hardest things was to work with men and women in uniform, but to also watch them deploy and some not come home. It's a civilian-controlled military. And there's deep respect for that tradition. It weighs on me that it is political civilians, political types and civilians who make these decisions, but it is the military families that bear that brunt. And so as a political person, I think you have to be very responsible about the policy decisions that you make when it comes to sending men and women in uniform overseas.”

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35. “Yeah, it's hard to with the perspective to look at that and not see it as a mistake, right? Especially the things that we've learned about the tenuous connection that the Bush administration at that time was trying to make between Iraq and the terrorist organizations. And”

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36. “Well, the military leaders are probably preparing options at this moment in a range of options for the political leaders at the department and for the president to choose from. Unfortunately, this is a difficult situation that there aren't a ton of good options. And Iran has been a bad actor who has worked through these proxy groups for a long time now. And I'm hearing the political Republicans want to hit the president on being soft and are calling for assertive action. But, you know, those are consequences, and I think it weighs heavily on the civilian leadership at the department, but I'm sure in the White House as well, that Know there are consequences, and those are American men and women that you're going to be putting at risk and depending on which one of these options you choose, right?”

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37. “And we just lost two special operators, two SEALs last week as they attempted to board a DAO that had Iranian contraband that was heading into the region.”

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38. “Know, if China is the pacing threat today, the Middle East was the pacing issue back then. One thing I noticed about the department, though, is that when there is a pacing threat, the entire department tries to orient itself to be relevant to said threat, right? And so you kind of, because that's how money is distributed and priorities are made. And so back then, counterterrorism and the wars in the Middle East, really everybody was trying to orient themselves that way. And I think today we've shifted from CENCOM and CEPCOM being the center of the department to now the Indo-Pacific command being sort of the main player and the other components have to figure out how they fit into the pacing threat of China. Although now the Middle East is starting to flare up again and that'll be an interesting shift for the department.”

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39. “Yeah, it does. And I'm not suggesting that there aren't reasons to be concerned about China's policies. I mean, their espionage networks, their violations of corporate IP, all of these things are of concern and should be handled. I just think, you know, sometimes when Washington gets in a place where they're trying to outdo one another on anti-China policy, you don't always end up with the kind of nuance that you need for something this complicated.”

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40. “Right, in Mao Zedong hats and really trying to attack me on having an affiliation with China. And when something becomes that political, it creates a situation where politicians take a look at their votes and they are concerned that the vote might look soft on China. And so, you know, they pushed a lot of bills that are out there and some of them make sense. Some of them hurt power supply chains and hurt American consumers more than they actually have the intended effect on China. But it takes a very strong politician to stand up and say, okay, well, the nuance of that bill doesn't make sense for my constituents, even though they know that they're going to be hit for being soft on China because the bill has been billed as this anti-China bill. So I think that's concerning because Makes you pass bad legislation.”

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41. “When I look at what has happened, what our China policy is, I'm really worried. While bipartisanship is good on most things, this bipartisan agreement to be very anti-China makes me concerned that we're going to pass policies that are not nuanced enough for the challenges of China and of that region. In 2018, in that cycle, I remember the attack ads against me was accusations of being soft on China and being a socialist. Here's a woman who escaped from a socialist country, and it was done in fairly racist overtones.”

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42. “So, in the early 2000s, when I was at the Department of Defense, we had two wars going on in the Middle East and then a tsunami hit the Asia-Pacific region. And we responded with humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. And what it did for us was it, you know, this large Muslim nation like Indonesia, we built so much goodwill with the use of American forces in a humanitarian assistance disaster relief way. And so we learned that our military could be used to build alliances and to build relationships and not just be used as a kinetic force. And so it was an opportunity to really build relationships in the Asia Pacific.”

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43. “Yeah, so I got that nickname when I was at the Pentagon. I did start on the Navy staff, but then I had moved on and I got that name, the Velvet Hammer, when I was helping write the Secretary's guidance for the department. And it was a global effort where, you know, we were creating priorities. And so I often had to go talk to people who were pretty senior in the military to tell them that, you know, unfortunately their area of interest wasn't a priority or wasn't where they wanted to be prioritized. And so those were sometimes tough conversations when you're staring down four stars. But, you know, it was an interesting experience and definitely a good experience insofar as learning how to talk to people who you are not. It's like managing up or managing people you don't have any authority over.”

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44. “I think they understood that I felt like I owed this country something and that this was my way of paying back both their debt and mine. But I bet they thought that my econ degree hadn't done me much good given the financial calculus that I had just made”

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45. “That's right. I went to work at the Department of Defense and I explained it to my parents that I was going back to grad school, but that I was probably going to go work for the government where I would be making less money than I made when I was working in the private sector, having accrued graduate school debt. And financially, it didn't make a lot of sense.”

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46. “That's right. And when I was in college, I interned for him and I had during that internship had a chance to meet so many incredible former public servants. And they'd had these great careers. And he gave this speech at my graduation. And he talked about how public service was so important that the future of this great country rests in the hands that are at the helm of state. And I remember thinking to myself, having already taken that offer to join Deloy, that boy, I think I just made mistake because it was, I thought of public service as something a career that I admired and would one day want to see myself do that. So then 9-11 happens and I think to myself, my country is under attack. I need to do that public service thing now before I get too far. Far down this corporate career, and it becomes financially impossible to walk away”

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47. “Yes, I took the highest paying offer that I was, that my skills and my interviewing skills had secured for me. And I went into the private sector, but I had worked for General Scotcroft at the Scowcroft Group.”

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48. “I think having grown up, like I mentioned, where I was the only Asian person, only person of color in my school, I got really good at observing other people. When you're a child, you want nothing more than to fit in. And so I got really good at observing other people and being able to mimic what would allow me to fit in. And so, you know, I noticed that my tray did not look like everybody else's tray did. And so I just sort of observed and, okay, I need to get a salad. I'm going to get some protein. And so sort of learned how to adapt.”

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49. “Being a first generation college student. And we never really. When I got to college, I had the cafeteria and I didn't know how to put together an American meal. So I think for the first, oh, I don't know, for probably first month or so, I ate peas, soft serve ice cream.”

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50. “I think you're absolutely right about that. And for so long, America embraced that. And now, you know, we talk about how unemployment is low, but we actually have a lot of challenges with our workforce and shortages. I always found it really interesting that some of my more conservative constituents would come into my office and say, you know, we really need some immigrant workers, we need to be able to have more of these workers. And I would say to them, I'm like, don't come whisper it to a Democratic office. Go yell, go yell at your Republican representatives, right? Like, you can't, because you're a conservative, shy away from this immigration issue when you will quietly acknowledge that that creates an economic and a labor force issue for you.”

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