TUCSON, Ariz. — Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijlava won the special election last week in her southern Arizona district by a landslide: 40 points.

She will assume the seat that her late father, the progressive icon Raul Grijalva, held for 23 years.

She just doesn’t know when.

“There is no ambiguity, no question about who won,” the Tucson Democrat said during an interview Monday from a borrowed conference room in the House of Representatives.

“I'd like to be able to get to work for the constituents that sent me here to work.”

Grijalva can't provide services to her new constituents until she's sworn in by Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson.

She can't cast a vote in the House until she's sworn in.

According to Grijalva and House Democratic leaders, there's one vote Johnson doesn'

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