Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva to be sworn
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In a speech on the House floor after being sworn in, Grijalva said it was time for Congress “to restore a full and check and balance to this administration.”
As the Arizona Democrat becomes the newest member of Congress, the White House still hopes to kill the discharge petition she’s poised to sign.
The more than 800,000 people in southern Arizona’s 7th Congressional District finally have a voice in the U.S. House of Representatives again, after Democratic Rep. Adelita Grijalva was sworn in on Wednesday.