[1][2] She was also a scientific researcher at the Romanian Academy's Iorgu Iordan Institute of Linguistics [ro], with articles and speciality studies to her name.
[2] She arrived in Parliament in 1996, on the lists of the Romanian Democratic Convention, surviving that alliance's 2000 defeat due to her closeness to Valeriu Stoica.
[4] In the Chamber, she sat on the committees for culture, art and mass media (1996–2007);[5][6][7] equal opportunity between men and women (2000–2004; 2006–2007);[6][7] and foreign policy (2007); and was vice president of the body from December 2004 to January 2005.
[4] She also helped initiate a lustration law, inspired by the Proclamation of Timișoara and meant to exclude from public office those "who were part of the power structures and repressive apparatus of the Communist regime".
In response, she made public a collaboration agreement signed in March 1977, in which she accepted the code name "Dana" and agreed to provide information about foreign students.
[13] In 1982, she married Gavril Muscă, head of the Bucharest Chemical Energy Institute and a friend of the Ceaușescu family that then led Romania.