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Adelita Grijalva Will Finally Be Sworn In, After Being Blocked From Taking Office for Record 7 Weeks | Common Dreams (www.commondreams.org)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38671945

The financier’s ties to President Donald Trump have led to mounting suspicion, including from fellow Republicans like Reps. Thomas Massie (Ky.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), who have said they plan to join Democrats in voting for the files’ release.

Johnson has managed to delay a vote on the Epstein files for months. In July, as a bipartisan resolution pushed by Massie and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) was gaining steam, Johnson sent Congress home early for its August recess, which delayed business until September.

In the final weeks before the shutdown, after a bill to fund the government stalled in the Senate, Johnson sent members home again on September 19, just days before Grijalva’s election would have made her the 218th vote to force an Epstein resolution to the floor.

While Grijalva expressed excitement at finally being sworn in, she said, “this delay never should have happened in the first place.”

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To be fair, it was the senate that folded, not the house

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The Senate folded, which forced a vote in the House because that bill changed in the Senate, which brought the House back into session, so she had to be finally sworn in.

It is all, oddly, related.

Extrapolating from there, the Senate Dems decided to gamble American citizens' health insurance in exchange for some tabloid headline documents. Hoping for...mass sentiment against the Mango presumably? Strike while there is bipartisan support for something in the House. To then what, maybe oust Mango for Couchfucker? Sow distrust? Maybe they just pulled back because they realized the US was inches from doing a general strike? What better time.

Meanwhile, citizens were ready for the long-haul. Effect real change. Get actual attention to being pissed off at this sham of a government. Thrown away for some documents that will be buried in a few disaster news cycles.