On her 28th day in office, photographer John Boal trailed Rep. Pramila Jayapal. It was January 31, 2017, and the news was consumed by President Donald Trump's executive order banning travel from the seven Muslim-majority nations. This is his account of that day.

In the morning, Jayapal met with her Deputy Chief of Staff, Ven Neralla, to go over their day and any potential response they had to the executive order regarding the immigration/refugee restrictions.

Not long after that, she dove into a schedule packed mostly with meetings with constituent groups.

There was a break in the middle of the day where she went to the floor of the house to give a one minute speech—a standard procedure in the House, where representatives are given an opportunity to speak for one minute on a topic of choice before legislative business begins.

Rep. Jayapal voiced her opposition to the executive order. Since we aren’t allowed to shoot in the House chambers, I photographed her on the TV in her office.

Rep. Jayapal stayed in the house chambers and voiced her support of H.R. 724, introduced by Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA, 19) on Jan 30. Along with 46 other Democrats, Jayapal stood up to ask that HR 724 (The Statue of Liberty Values Act) come to the floor for debate and a vote, but all were denied.

She returned to the office, had lunch, met with her staff, had two more meetings with constituent groups. She took a phone call with a local Seattle radio station, KOMO radio, to discuss her position on the executive order, among other topics.

By 3 pm, her day turned to private meetings and dinners and that was all I could cover. That’s when we did her portraits. She surprised me a bit at how pleasant she was, considering how busy her day had been up to that point.

The next morning she had a press conference in front of the Capitol with the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) denouncing the executive order.