House Speaker Mike Johnson was confronted in the halls of the Capitol by Arizona Sens. Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly over his flimsy excuse for refusing to swear in Democratic Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, who won her special election over two weeks ago.

“Ms. Grijalva, Rep-elect Grijalva, has not yet had a scheduled date because she was elected after the House was out of session,” Johnson claimed, as reporters and cameras captured the exchange.

“How much is this actually you just don't want her to be on the Epstein discharge?” Gallego replied, referring to how Grijalva represents the tipping-point vote on a bipartisan discharge petition that would force a vote on releasing the government’s long-suppressed files on accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

“It’s totally absurd. You guys are

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