For Rep. Cori Bush, eviction is “personal.” The Missouri Democrat has been sleeping and staying outside the United States Capitol since Friday — the day the House failed to extend a federal moratorium on evictions that helped renters suffering as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and left for summer recess. "I'm urging you to please hear me out on this issue because as a formerly unhoused Congresswoman, I have been evicted three times myself," Bush wrote in a letter to House Democrats released Friday. "I know what it's like to be forced to live in my car with my two children." The freshman congresswoman has emerged as the leading voice on the issue and is intent on staying at the Capitol until "we see some change and some relief for the people." The eviction moratorium was implemented last year under the Trump administration due to the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began the eviction freeze to help stop the spread of the virus. President Joe Biden extended the eviction freeze through July 31. Biden on Thursday asked Congress to extend the moratorium, arguing that he was unable to act due to a Supreme Court ruling in June, which stated the CDC overstepped its authority when it created the policy but allowed the moratorium to stand through last month. Story by Savannah Behrmann and Mabinty Quarshie. Photos by Joshua Roberts and Samuel Corum for @gettyimages.