This afternoon, Mike Johnson finally administered the oath of office to new Arizona Democratic congresswoman Adelita Grijalva . The Speaker held off this moment for well over a month under the guise of not wanting to do serious business while the government was shut down (the House wasn’t technically in recess, and Johnson had sworn in Republicans at similar moments earlier this year).

Grijalva won the seat vacated by her father’s death in a September 23 special election . Her delayed swearing-in was generally understood to have been attributable to her pledge to become the 218th signatory on a discharge petition to force a House vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act , a piece of legislation co-sponsored by Republican Thomas Massie and Democrat Ro Khanna that the Whit

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