众议院民主党人呼吁“深入调查”上个月的美国国会暴乱并追究那些讲述围城期间经历的人的责任。
众议员亚历山大·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯，纽约直言创伤她经历了袭击，组织了周四在众议院的特别演讲，一个月前，国会议员逃离了闯入国会大厦的暴徒。
“29天前，我们国家的国会大厦遭到袭击。这是个大新闻，”美国东部时间晚上7点后不久，这位国会女议员说道。“在这个大故事中，有成千上万个个人账户，它们和其他账户一样有效、一样重要。今晚，为了这个特殊的命令，我们将开始听到并向国会记录承诺这些故事中的一部分。”
在接下来的一个小时里，奥卡西奥-科尔特斯和她的八名民主党同事一起分享了他们对1月6日发生的事情的震惊和恐惧。
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众议员彼得·韦尔奇，D-Vt。他回忆说，那天他在前往美国国会大厦认证11月总统选举结果时遇到了“暴徒”，这些暴徒“使用了我在这里无法提及的针对[众议院议长]南希·佩洛西的可怕绰号。”
“我从来没有想到这座建筑会被淹没，”他说，称这次袭击是“对我们民主的创伤”。“我想当然地认为那不可能发生。当然，它做到了。”
纽约众议员阿德里亚诺·埃斯佩莱特(Adriano Espaillat)回忆了致命围困期间国会大厦发生的“可怕”场景，当时一名美国国会警察开枪打死了一名暴徒。
“家具贴在墙上，有人被枪杀的地方有血迹，”他说。“对我们所有人来说，这都是一次痛苦的经历，无论是对两党还是对我们的国家。”
密歇根州众议员拉希达·特拉伊布(Rashida Tlaib)在开始演讲时泪流满面，在此期间，奥卡西奥-科尔特斯(Ocasio-Cortez)几次靠近她，把手放在她的肩膀上。围攻期间，特拉伊布不在国会大厦，但她说，考虑到她每天都受到的仇恨，这一事件发生在离家很近的地方。
“这太私人了，太难了，”她说，她回忆说在入职第一天就收到了死亡威胁。"我甚至还没宣誓就职，就有人想让我死了。"
她说她“每天”都在担心她不同员工的生活。
“我敦促我的同事们认真对待1月6日发生的事情，”她说。“我们可以做得更好。我们必须做得更好。”
一些暴徒显示的白人至上和无政府状态的极端主义象征。众议员柯里·布什。称这次暴动为“白人至上主义攻击”
“让我说，这不是抗议，”这位新生民主党人说，她是密苏里州第一位黑人女性，也是国会中第一位有色人种女性，她敦促她的共和党同事“为你所代表的黑人和棕色人种做正确的事。”
2021年2月4日，众议员亚历山大·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯在国会大厦的众议院发言。
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2021年2月4日，众议员亚历山大·奥卡西奥-科尔特斯在国会大厦的众议院发言。
明尼苏达州众议员迪安·菲利普斯(Dean Phillips)在攻击期间呼吁民主党同僚跟随他到众议院共和党一边，“以便我们能够融入进来”，随后向他的同事们表达了情绪歉意。
“但在瞬间，我意识到我的有色同事无法选择融入其中，”他说。“今晚我在这里向国会和全国的兄弟姐妹们说，我很抱歉。”
“我从来不明白，真的明白特权的真正含义，”他继续说道。“就在这个房间里，发生了一场暴动和一次闪电，但现在我知道了。”
几位代表要求他们确定袭击是如何发生的，并找到“真相”。
“这是无法掩盖的，”埃斯佩莱特说。"我们必须查明这个团体中是否有成员帮助和教唆那群愤怒的暴民。"
德克萨斯州众议员希拉·李庚翔说:“我认为，重温我们所经历的事情的重要性在于，正如我从我的同事那里听到的那样，我们必须弄清这件事的真相。”。“我们不能让白人至上...主宰这个民主和宪法所代表的美好事物。”
其他人借此机会呼吁参议院判前总统唐纳德·特朗普有罪，罪名是他在即将举行的弹劾审判。
加州众议员马克·高野(Mark Takano)说:“纠正这一点并帮助治愈我们国家的唯一方法是参议院做正确的事情，让特朗普对叛乱负责。”
特别会议在众议院之后举行周四晚上投票将众议员马乔里·泰勒·格林从她的委员会任务中除名。
奥卡西奥-科尔特斯此前在Instagram上的两个被广泛观看的直播节目中讲述了她在国会大厦袭击事件中的经历。
在1月12日的第一次会面中，这位国会女议员透露说，她“在我认为我会死的地方有一次非常近距离的接触”，尽管她没有详细描述这一事件，只是列举了安全原因。
“所有这些想法都向你涌来，”她在充满激情的长达一小时的Instagram直播中说。“我不知道我是否能坚持到一天结束——不仅仅是在一般意义上，而且是在非常非常具体的意义上。”
她还说，她和其他国会议员在一个安全的地方“感到不安全”，因为“QAnon和白人至上主义的同情者，坦率地说，在那个提取点的国会白人至上主义议员，我认识的人，以及我认为会透露我的位置的人...谁会创造机会让我被伤害，被绑架。”
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在周一晚上长达90分钟的视频直播中，她再次回忆起1月6日一群暴力暴徒袭击华盛顿特区国会大厦时，她和其他人被迫躲避，担心自己的生命安全。有一次，当她躲在办公室的浴室里时，她说有人猛敲门，进了房间，反复喊着:“她在哪里？”
“这是我认为一切都结束的时刻，”奥卡西奥-科尔特斯说。“我是说，我以为我要死了。”
奥卡西奥-科尔特斯说，进入她的办公室的人最终是一名警察，但她没有意识到这一点。
“我觉得如果这是我人生的旅程，我觉得一切都会好的，你知道，我已经达到了我的目的，”她说，擦去了眼泪。
奥卡西奥-科尔特斯说，当天晚些时候，当她被关在加州众议员凯蒂·波特的办公室时，她感到“完全不安全”。
前总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)和他的盟友在华盛顿特区举行集会，敦促国会不要认证11月总统选举的结果，随后国会大厦被围困。特朗普继续敦促他的支持者“战斗”推动毫无根据的选举舞弊指控。
人群随后走向国会大厦台阶，穿过路障，穿着防暴服的官员和其他安全措施。一群愤怒的暴徒闯入国会大厦，迫使国会议员和他们的工作人员躲在里面进行封锁。执法部门花了几个小时才清理完大楼。包括一名警察在内的五人因围困而死亡。
截至1月26日，司法部已经辨认400名嫌疑犯和135名被捕者与国会大厦的袭击有关。
'Traumatic experience for all of us': House members share personal stories about the Capitol attack
House Democrats called to "get to the bottom" of last month's U.S. Capitol riot and hold those accountable as they recounted their experience during the siege.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who has been vocal about the trauma she experienced during the attack, organized Thursday's special hour of speeches on the House floor, where, one month earlier, congress members fled from rioters who had breached the Capitol building.
"Twenty-nine days ago our nation's Capitol was attacked. That is the big story," the congresswoman said, shortly after 7 p.m. ET. "And in that big story resides thousands of individual accounts, just as valid and important as the other. Tonight, for this special order, we will begin to hear and commit to the congressional record just some of those many stories."
Over the next hour, Ocasio-Cortez was joined by eight of her Democratic colleagues as they shared their shock and horror at what happened on Jan. 6.
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Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., recalled the "mob" he encountered while walking to the U.S. Capitol that day to certify the results of the November presidential election that were "using horrible epithets I can't mention here directed at [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi."
"It never, ever occurred to me that this building would be inundated," he said, calling the attack a "trauma to our democracy." "I took it for granted that that just couldn't happen. Of course, it did."
PHOTO: People shelter in the House gallery as protesters try to break into the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington.
Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., recalled a "horrifying" scene in the Capitol building during the deadly siege, during which a U.S. Capitol Police officer fatally shot a rioter.
"Furniture stuck up against the wall, and bloodstains right outside where someone was shot," he said. "This is a traumatic experience for all of us, on both sides of the aisle and for our nation."
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., was in tears as she began her speech, during which Ocasio-Cortez approached several times to put a hand on her shoulder. Tlaib was not at the Capitol during the siege, but said it struck very close to home considering the hate she gets on a daily basis.
"This is so personal, this is so hard," she said, as she recounted receiving a death threat on her first day of orientation. "I didn't even get sworn in yet, and somebody wanted me dead for just existing."
"I ask my colleagues to please try not to dehumanize what's happening. This is real...Please take what happened on January 6 seriously."Rep. @RashidaTlaib delivers emotional remarks on the House floor about the Jan. 6 Capitol siege. https://t.co/Jdn4gyfWLL pic.twitter.com/DNoGA6Q101
"I urge my colleagues to please take what happened on Jan. 6 seriously," she said. "We can do better. We must do better."
Some rioters displayed extremist symbols of white supremacy and anarchy. Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo. called the insurrection a "white supremacist attack."
"Let me say this, this was not a protest," said the freshman Democrat -- the first Black woman and first woman of color in Congress from Missouri -- urging her Republican colleagues to "do right by the Black and brown people you represent."
Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., offered an emotional apology to his colleagues, after calling on fellow Democrats to follow him to the Republican side of the chamber during the attack "so that we could blend in."
"But within moments I recognized that blending in was not an option available to my colleagues of color," he said. "I'm here tonight to say to my brothers and sisters in Congress, and all around the country, I'm sorry."
"I have never understood, really understood what privilege really means," he continued. "It took a violent mob of insurrectionists and a lightning bolt moment in this very room, but now I know."
Several of the representatives demanded that they determine how the attack occurred and find the "truth."
"It cannot be swept under the rug," Espaillat said. "We must find out if there were members of this body who aided and abetted that angry mob."
"I think the importance of this, reliving what we went through, is as I've heard from my colleagues, we must get to the bottom of this," Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, said. "We cannot let white supremacy ... dominate the goodness of what this democracy and this Constitution stands for."
Others took the opportunity to call on the Senate to convict former President Donald Trump for inciting the insurrection in his upcoming impeachment trial.
"The only way to make this right, and help heal our nation, is for the Senate to do the right thing and hold Trump accountable for the insurrection," Rep. Mark Takano, D-Calif., said.
The special session occurred after the House voted Thursday evening to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee assignments.
PHOTO: Rep. Rashida Tlaib is comforted by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez while speaking on the house floor at the Capitol, Feb. 4, 2021.
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Ocasio-Cortez had previously recounted her experience during the Capitol attack in two widely viewed livestreams on Instagram.
During the first on Jan. 12, the congresswoman revealed that she "had a very close encounter where I thought I was going to die," though she didn't detail the incident, citing security reasons.
"All of these thoughts come rushing to you," she said during the passionate, hourlong Instagram live. "I did not know if I was going to make it to the end of the day -- and not just in a general sense but also in a very, very specific sense."
She also said she didn't "feel safe" joining other members of Congress in a secure location because "QAnon and white supremacist sympathizers, and frankly white supremacist members of Congress in that extraction point, who I know, and who I had felt would disclose my location ... who would create opportunities to allow me to be hurt, kidnapped."
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In a 90-minute video livestream Monday night, she again recalled fearing for her life as she and others were forced to take shelter when a violent mob stormed the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6. At one point, when she was hiding in the bathroom of her office, she said someone banged on the door and entered the room, repeatedly yelling, "Where is she?"
"This was the moment I thought everything was over," Ocasio-Cortez said. "I mean, I thought I was going to die."
Ocasio-Cortez said the person entering her office ended up being a police officer, but she was unaware of that as it happened.
"I felt that if this was the journey that my life was taking, that, I felt that things were going to be OK and that, you know, I had fulfilled my purpose," she said, wiping away tears from her eyes.
People shelter in the House gallery as rioters try to break into the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Ocasio-Cortez said she felt "completely unsafe" later that day when she was barricaded in the office of Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif.
The Capitol siege occurred after a rally held by former President Donald Trump and his allies in Washington, D.C., urging Congress not to certify the results of the November presidential election. Trump urged his supporters "to fight" as he continued to push baseless claims of election fraud.
Crowds of people then made their way to the Capitol steps, pushing through barricades, officers in riot gear and other security measures. An angry mob breached the Capitol building, forcing a lockdown with members of Congress and their staff holed up inside. It took hours for law enforcement to clear the building. Five people, including a police officer, died as a result of the siege.
As of Jan. 26, the Department of Justice has identified 400 suspects and have arrested 135 in connection with the attack on the Capitol.
ABC News' Emily Shapiro and Morgan Winsor contributed to this report.
