Overview
- Johnson’s office set Grijalva’s ceremony for Wednesday afternoon at the Capitol, just before the House takes its first votes to reopen the government.
- Once sworn in, she is expected to sign the bipartisan Massie–Khanna discharge petition to force consideration of Justice Department records on Jeffrey Epstein after the required seven legislative days.
- Johnson defended the weeks-long delay by saying the House was out of session during the shutdown, while Democrats and Arizona’s attorney general alleged a political motive tied to the petition; the state’s lawsuit remains pending.
- The roughly 50-day gap since her Sept. 23 special-election win left about 813,000 Arizonans without full representation or access to normal constituent services.
- The House return follows the Senate’s 60–40 procedural vote advancing a stopgap funding bill, which triggered plans to reconvene and cleared the way for the swearing-in.