Adelita Grijalva can force a vote on the Epstein files, but she's still not sworn in
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More than three weeks after winning her congressional race, Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva never imagined her fight to get sworn into office would take this long.
The Arizona Democrat has keys to her office, but not much else.
"I have no staff ... The phones don't work. There's no computer," Grijalva says from her sparsely furnished office on Capitol Hill. "We don't have a government email."
That bumpy start to Grijalva's new political career in Washington is courtesy of the same intense, p
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