House Speaker Mike Johnson

I told them, if you want to get your house colleague from your state take the oath of office, then open the government so we can get back to regular session.

They claim everything's about Epstein.

It's a joke.

Masters of distraction.

We did – this is a longstanding tradition in the Congress.

When you administer the oath after a special election, you do it the first time that the Congress is back in session after that.

We did change that, modify it earlier this year on one occasion.

We had two Floridians who came in on the same special election.

But it was a very different set of circumstances.

I explained to them very quickly, we had a scheduled date for the office ceremony.

The House went out of session unexpectedly.

They already had their family and friends here, and it was already prearranged.

So we just went ahead and went through the motion.

We're going to rep elect Grijalva.

We'll be sworn in as soon as we get back to regular session.

She never had a scheduled date because she got elected after the House went out of session.

This is real simple.

We're going to do that as soon as we get back.

But they are in charge of turning the lights on so Congress can get back to work.

I am on my knees praying that we would not be.