(Reuters) -U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson will swear in Democratic Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva on Wednesday, Johnson’s office said on Tuesday.

Grijalva won a special election in September to succeed her late father in Congress, but her swearing-in was delayed as Johnson kept the House of Representatives out of session since it passed a stopgap funding bill on September 19, in a bid to pressure Senate Democrats to reopen the government.

The House returned to Washington on Tuesday after a 53-day break for a vote to end the government shutdown.

(Reporting by Christian Martinez and Ismail Shakil; Editing by Chris Reese)

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