Adelita Grijalva sworn in nearly two months after her election to the House

Democrat Adelita Grijalva was sworn into Congress on Wednesday, more than seven weeks after she won a special election for the Tucson-area House seat, ending a tumultuous and partisan tug-of-war to get her seated.

Grijalva won the seat in a Sept. 23 special election, but Speaker Mike Johnson had kept the House in recess, citing the government shutdown, and ignored demands from Democrats to seat her during pro forma sessions. The 7th District seat has been vacant since March, when Grijalva’ father , the late Arizona Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva, died.

She plans to confront Johnson over the delay, she told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins in an interview Tuesday: “I’m not exactly sure what I’m going to say, I’m going to be as respectful as possible … This kind of obstruction cannot happen again.”

“I won’