House Speaker Mike Johnson had refused to seat Grijalva during the shutdown. She will provide the final signature on a petition to force a vote to release the DOJ's Epstein files.

Hours before being sworn in to Congress, Arizona Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva told Scripps News she believes the delay was a direct result of her vow to sign a petition to release the Epstein files.

: The U.S. House of Representatives has sworn in U.S. Rep. Adelita Grijalva, D-Arizona, as scheduled. EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Arizona Democrat Adelita Grijalva arrived in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to be sworn into the U.

Grijalva, who won a special election to replace Rep. Raúl Grijalva, her late father, is the first Latina and “first Chicana" to represent Arizona.

A commercial flight carrying members of Congress made an unscheduled landing at Kansas City International Airport Tuesday evening after a passenger became unruly on board.

Representative Adelita Grijalva, an Arizona Democrat, was sworn into office Wednesday by House Speaker Mike Johnson and took the opportunity to blast President Donald Trump and Congress. Speaking to her colleagues on the House floor Wednesday, Grijalva said, “While we celebrate this moment today, our American promise is under serious threat.

The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote on a bipartisan deal to reopen the federal government but one Arizona congressman says he's going to vote no.

House speakers have had the power to determine when the oath is administered, and courts have been reluctant to weigh in on that influence.