In late September, Arizona voters elected Adelita Grijalva in a special election to succeed her late father in the U.S. House of Representatives. But the Democratic representative-elect has yet to be sworn in more than two weeks later.

While House Speaker Mike Johnson has continued to cite the ongoing government shutdown for the delay, but Democrats believe Grijalva is being blocked over her promise to sign onto a discharge petition to force the House to vote on releasing federal files related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. As the chamber remains at an impasse, here’s what we know about Grijalva and the push to get her sworn in as a U.S. representative.

. Who is Adelita Grijalva?

A former Pima County supervisor, the 54-year-old Congresswoman-elect announced in March that she

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