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WASHINGTON — One month ago, Tia Christiansen was in Las Vegas, scheduled to work at the Route 91 Harvest festival, but felt ill so she stayed in her room on the 32nd floor of Mandalay Bay.
At a Capitol Hill news conference Wednesday, she recalled the horror that came next: the sound of rapid gunfire that rattled her sense of security and the fear of the unknown as the loud bursts shattered the silence.
Christiansen, 48, said she tried to make herself "as small as possible."
SWAT came into her room when the shooting stopped and evacuated her to the ground floor, where she joined other survivors of the Las Vegas Strip shooting.
"It was a mass group of people in shock," she said following the news conference.
Christiansen and other survivors of the worst mass shooting in U.S. history joined Nevada's congressional Democrats, who called for a hearing on gun legislation that they said would prevent future tragedies.
The news conference was held one month after the Oct. 1 shooting that killed 58 people and injured more than 546 others. Victims who lost their lives were remembered. Law enforcement, first responders and volunteers who gave aid and donated blood were commemorated.
Rep. Ruben Kihuen, D-Nev., and Rep. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., sent a letter to House Judiciary Chairman Robert Goodlatte, R-Va., urging a hearing on several bills filed after the shooting to restrict or ban the use of "bump stocks" that were used in the deadly attack.
Nevada congressional Democrats call for 'bump stock' hearing