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November 13, 2025

Speaker Johnson Swears In Arizona Congressmember Adelita Grijalva After 50 Day Delay
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Arizona Democrat Adelita Grijalva was sworn into office by House Speaker
Mike Johnson on Wednesday, 50 days after winning her seat in Congress.
Soon after, Grijalva provided the final signature on a discharge
petition to force a vote on the Justice Department's full release of the
Epstein files.

Congressmember Adelita Grijalva: For one individual to be able to
silence 800,000 people, it's unconscionable. It's grosero. It's just not
OK. Speaker Johnson purposefully obstructed my swearing-in by canceling
vote after vote. And the Epstein Files discharge petition sat one
signature short. With my signing, we move one step closer to the truth,
the truth that they will try to deny, but that survivors deserve their
day of justice and the American people demand it."

We'll speak with Congressmember Adelita Grijalva later in the broadcast.


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