After fifty days Adelita Grijalva takes seat | JQJO

After 50 days, Rep. Adelita Grijalva was sworn into Congress on Wednesday, ending a standoff that spurred protests, a lawsuit, and tensions over her seating. Speaker Mike Johnson delayed the oath until the House returned to vote on a Senate-passed bill to reopen the government, leaving her district without a vote and barring her from opening an office or using government systems—"basically a tourist," she said. Democrats said he stalled because she is the 218th signer on a push to force a vote to release Jeffrey Epstein case files; Johnson said the House was out of session.