US EditionWill Speaker Johnson Ever Call the House Back? 800,000 Arizonans Are without a Voice
House Speaker Mike Johnson blocks Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva’s swearing-in until Democrats accept GOP spending plan, delaying representation for nearly 1 million Arizonans, officials said.
- Yesterday, House Speaker Mike Johnson accused Democrats of attacking a Capitol Police officer at a morning press conference, saying they tore down a sign in the foyer of his U.S. Capitol office.
- Rep.-Elect Adelita Grijalva, D-Tucson, won by nearly 70% and returned more than three weeks after her victory, but House Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to swear her in until Democrats accept the House GOP spending plan to end the government shutdown.
- Last week, Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., and Rep. Ruben Gallego confronted Johnson outside his office in a heated six-minute exchange witnessed by news media.
- Grijalva warned that every unsworn day blocks constituents from critical services, and Democrats say Johnson is silencing nearly 1 million Arizonans in the 7th Congressional District.
- At Wednesday's news conference, Rep. Ruben Gallego accused Johnson of stalling to delay Epstein files, which Johnson called totally absurd.
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'Why can't you seat her?': CNBC host confronts speaker over refusal to swear in Democrat
When Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) — daughter of the late Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) — won a special election in the Grand Canyon State, her victory meant that the GOP's small majority in the U.S. House of Representatives would be narrowed from 219-214. But Grijalva has yet to seated — a fact that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) is blaming on the partial shutdown of the United States' federal government.During Johnson's Thursd…
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Letters to the Editor: Speaker Johnson’s excuse for refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva doesn’t fly
House Speaker Mike Johnson's 'excuse — that the House is not in session and therefore he can't swear her in during a pro forma session — makes it even worse,' writes an L.A. Times reader.
Will Speaker Johnson ever call the House back? 800,000 Arizonans are without a voice
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is blocking Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) from being sworn in, denying representation to 800,000 people in Arizona's 7th District and potentially risking the health and financial security of millions of Americans, in a deliberate act of political obstruction.
‘Condescending, Patronizing, Misogynistic’: Democrat Waiting to Be Sworn In to House Hits Back Hard at Speaker Johnson
Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) hit back hard on Thursday at House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), who has yet to swear her in to Congress more than three weeks after she was overwhelmingly voted in to fill her late father’s seat. Johnson was recently confronted by Fox News about the situation. “She [Grijalva says that you’re afraid of her being the 218th signer to the Epstein petition to release the files,” said anchor John Roberts. “…
Excuses keep changing for not swearing me in: Rep.-elect calls out Speaker Johnson's 'hypocrisy'
Democrats are ramping up pressure on House Speaker Mike Johnson to seat Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, staging a protest at his office, holding news conferences and threatening a lawsuit to try to get him to swear in the newest Democratic member of Congress. Rep.-elect Grijalva, D-Ariz., joins Morning Joe to discuss.
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