{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://larson.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/larson-welcomes-representative-adelita-grijalva-congress-reiterates", "Larson Welcomes Representative Adelita Grijalva to Congress, Reiterates Call for Swift Vote on Epstein Files", "2025-11-12", "2025", "2025-11", "Democrat", "House", "CT", "John B. Larson", "L000557", "larson.house.gov", "larson", "https://larson.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "\u201c50 days since Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva was duly elected by her constituents, I am honored to welcome her to the Capitol for her swearing in,\u201d said Larson. \u201cHer late father, and my dear friend, Rep. Ra\u00fal Grijalva, was deeply committed to serving the people of Arizona\u2019s Seventh District. I look forward to working with Adelita, who I know will follow in his footsteps as a fierce advocate for the people she is sworn to serve, and for the needs of all Americans. Speaker Johnson\u2019s 50-day obstruction campaign to prevent her swearing in marked a new low for the United States Congress. The People\u2019s House is supposed to be governed of, by, and for the people, not one man. That is why I am moving to change House rules so no Speaker can again hold up the people\u2019s business against the will of the majority.\u201d\n\nFollowing her swearing in, Rep. Grijalva became the 218th and final signature needed to advance a discharge petition forcing a vote on the release of files related to federal investigations into Jeffrey Epstein. As new emails come out linking President Donald Trump to child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the White House has launched an all-out pressure campaign to convince Members of Congress to withdraw their names from the discharge petition.\n\n\u201cIt is beyond alarming to watch Speaker Johnson and President Trump pull out all the stops to block the release of the Epstein Files \u2013 even delaying the swearing in of a duly elected member for months to avoid a vote,\u201d Larson continued. \u201cThe brave survivors of Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s abuse network deserve to see their perpetrators brought to justice. What exactly is the White House hiding and who are they covering for? As Robert Graves wrote in I, Claudius, \u2018Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out.\u2019 No more gamesmanship and secrecy. It\u2019s time to let the truth hatch out.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:52:45Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://larson.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/larson-welcomes-representative-adelita-grijalva-congress-reiterates"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9581521153450012, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}