Overview
- She took the oath on Nov. 12 as the House reconvened after a shutdown, ending nearly seven weeks without a seated representative for Arizona’s 7th District.
- Arizona’s attorney general pressed the case for her immediate seating and filed suit over the holdup, challenging the Speaker’s authority to delay a duly elected member.
- Moments after her floor remarks, she signed the discharge petition that reached the threshold to require consideration of a measure compelling the Justice Department to release unclassified Jeffrey Epstein files.
- The petition now enters the required waiting period before a vote, with Democrats noting the Trump administration has resisted broader disclosure of the records.
- In bilingual remarks, she outlined priorities on immigration, public schools, veterans, tribal sovereignty, the environment and LGBTQ+ rights, as two Epstein survivors observed from the gallery.