House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) will swear in Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) on Wednesday after a seven-week delay.

Grijalva won a special election called after the death of her father and predecessor, Rep. Raúl Grijalva. She then broke the record for the longest delay faced by a representative between winning an election and being sworn in, a delay widely decried by Democrats as politically motivated. On Tuesday, Johnson’s office issued a notice that Grijalva would be sworn in at 4 p.m. on Wednesday.

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