33 Facts About Stephanie Murphy

Stephanie Murphy's district included much of downtown and northern Orlando, as well as all of Winter Park, Maitland, Sanford, and Altamonte Springs.

Stephanie Murphy became the first Vietnamese-American woman, first Vietnamese-American Democrat, and the second Vietnamese-American overall to be elected to Congress.

On December 20,2021, Stephanie Murphy announced that she would not run for reelection to a fourth term in 2022.

Stephanie Murphy's family fled Communist-controlled Vietnam in 1979 when she was six months old.

Stephanie Murphy then went to Georgetown University, from which she received a Master of Science in Foreign Service degree.

Stephanie Murphy worked as an executive on investment efforts and government affairs initiatives at Sungate Capital in Winter Park, Florida, and as a business professor at Rollins College.

In 2018 Stephanie Murphy came under criticism after it was revealed that her husband's company has the pants and other sports gear made in China.

Stephanie Murphy declared her candidacy for the United States House of Representatives for Florida's 7th congressional district in the 2016 elections.

Stephanie Murphy was endorsed by President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and former congresswoman Gabby Giffords.

Stephanie Murphy is the second Vietnamese-American, after Joseph Cao, to be elected to the United States Congress, and the first Vietnamese-American woman to do so.

Stephanie Murphy ran in a district that was somewhat bluer than its predecessor after a court-ordered mid-decade redistricting.

Stephanie Murphy has urged the Federal Bureau of Investigation to investigate various bomb threats against Jewish facilities.

Stephanie Murphy joined the Blue Dog Coalition in the 115th US Congress, and in December 2018 was named one of three co-chairs, handling administration, for the 116th US Congress.

In March 2019, Stephanie Murphy endorsed Beto O'Rourke in the 2020 Democratic party presidential primaries.

On July 1,2021, Stephanie Murphy was one of seven Democrats Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed to the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack.

On July 12,2022, Stephanie Murphy co-led the Select Committee's seventh public hearing with Representative Jamie Raskin.

In 2021, Stephanie Murphy was one of nine Democrats who refused to support the Build Back Better Act unless the House first voted on the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

Stephanie Murphy was part of an effort by some Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill to use the coronavirus outbreak to press Trump to remove tariffs on billions of dollars worth of Chinese goods and imported steel and aluminum.

Stephanie Murphy introduced a bill to make it easier for small business owners to obtain low-interest loans.

Stephanie Murphy co-sponsored a law, passed and signed by Trump, that ensures that small businesses will receive a share of federal government contracts.

Stephanie Murphy was one of 24 House Democrats to vote for Kate's Law, which proposes to increase the penalties for those who have been deported or removed from the US and are apprehended reentering the country.

Stephanie Murphy opposed Trump's executive order to temporarily ban entry into the US by citizens of six Muslim-majority countries, North Korea and Venezuela.

Stephanie Murphy decided to run for office when incumbent Republican John Mica accepted a campaign contribution from the NRA two days after the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida.

Stephanie Murphy won office with the support of gun-control groups, such as Americans for Responsible Solutions and the Pride Fund to End Gun Violence, which formed after the Pulse shooting.

In 2017, Stephanie Murphy introduced into the House the "Gun Violence Research Act", which was designed to repeal the 1996 Dickey Amendment, a federal ban on the use of federal funds to fund gun-violence research.

On December 18,2019, Stephanie Murphy voted for both articles of impeachment against Trump.

On January 7,2021, Stephanie Murphy called for Trump to be removed from office under the 25th amendment of the US Constitution.

Stephanie Murphy voted in favor of Trump's second impeachment on January 13,2021.

Stephanie Murphy was one of 8 Democrats to oppose a House resolution limiting Trump's military actions against Iran without congressional approval.

Stephanie Murphy co-sponsored the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, a sweeping civil rights and police reform bill that would limit legal protections for police from individual lawsuits, ban chokeholds, create a national registry of police misconduct, and grant the Department of Justice more power to investigate local police departments for potential misconduct, among a number of other provisions.

Stephanie Murphy authored a statement from the Blue Dog Caucus calling for "swift and systematic change" and calling on Republicans to join them in pursuing police reform.

Stephanie Murphy said that while she supported many elements of the bill, "the trade section of the bill includes problematic, poorly-vetted provisions and excludes sensible, bipartisan provisions that were part of the Senate-passed version of the bill" according to Stephanie Murphy.

In 2022, Stephanie Murphy was one of 16 Democrats to vote against the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act of 2022, an antitrust package that would crack down on corporations for anti-competitive behavior.