Seven weeks after winning a special election, Democrat Adelita Grijalva was finally sworn into Congress on Wednesday, ending a standoff that left more than 800,000 Arizonans without representation and drew fury from Democrats.

House Speaker Mike Johnson administered the oath just before debate began on a funding bill to reopen the government. Grijalva said it hardly felt real after such a long wait, noting on Monday that one of her first votes would be on a measure “that does nothing for affordable health care for the American people.”

Grijalva won her Sept. 23 special election to succeed her late father, longtime Rep. Raúl Grijalva. But the House had not been in session since Sept. 19, when it passed the GOP’s short-term spending bill. Johnson repeatedly extended what was supposed to be

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