PHOENIX — After a historically long wait, U.S. Rep. Adelita Grijalva was finally sworn into Congress on Wednesday.

House Speaker Mike Johnson administered the oath shortly after 2 p.m. Arizona time, officially seating Grijalva as the representative for Arizona’s 7th Congressional District (CD7).

Grijalva won a Sept. 23 special election in a landslide, claiming a vacant seat formerly held by her late father, Raúl Grijalva.

CD7 had been vacant since his March 13 death after a long battle with cancer, leaving constituents in the southern Arizona district without representation for eight months.

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