WHAT TO KNOW

* A key House committee voted earlier Wednesday to advance the Senate-passed legislation, sending it to the House floor for consideration. The lower chamber will hold first votes as early as 4 p.m. ET. * Despite the shutdown nearing an end, flight delays and cancellations across the country persist. More than 880 flights within, into, or out of the U.S. have been cancelled for Wednesday, according to data from Flightaware. * Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva is scheduled to be sworn in today, nearly two months after the Arizona Democrat won her late father’s seat in a special election. Grijalva is expected to be the 218th signature on a discharge petition to force a House vote on whether the DOJ should release the Jeffrey Epstein files.

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