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Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva was sworn in to office Wednesday after a delay that U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson attributed to the long government shutdown, but that critics allege was because the Arizona lawmaker pledged to be the deciding signature on a petition to release the so-called Epstein files. Grijalva, …

Democrat Adelita Grijalva will be sworn in as a member of Congress on Wednesday, seven weeks after winning a special election to fill the Arizona seat once held by her late father, Rep. Raul Grijalva. House Speaker Mike Johnson is scheduled to administer the oath of office at 4 p.m. …

The Republican speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives is thumbing his nose at the Constitution by failing to seat a Tucson Democrat nearly a month after her overwhelming victory in a September special election, U.S. Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva and Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes argued in a lawsuit filed …

Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to allow Democrats’ newest congresswoman-elect to be sworn in until her party agrees to end the government shutdown, escalating a partisan standoff that has left large parts of the federal government shuttered for more than a week and deepened distrust across the Capitol. The move …

Democrat Adelita Grijalva has won the special election to fill the U.S. House seat once held by her late father, longtime Rep. Raúl Grijalva, NBC News projected Tuesday night. Grijalva, a former Pima County supervisor and Tucson school board member, defeated Republican Daniel Butierez in Arizona’s 7th Congressional District, which …