BATON ROUGE, La. (KALB) - The Louisiana Legislature convened on Oct. 23, beginning its first, and potentially only, special session for the year. Governor Jeff Landry called for the session last week, with the goal of considering the election code, dates, deadlines and plans for the 2026 election cycle.

That was the day after Sens. Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego, both Arizona Democrats, confronted Johnson and Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., in the Capitol to press them on the shutdown and the delayed swearing-in of Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz.

Arizona sues Speaker Mike Johnson over the delayed swearing-in of Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, with Attorney General Kris Mayes claiming voter disenfranchisement.

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is showing his anger as he becomes perhaps the most prominent Republican figure in the GOP’s stubborn, uncompromising government shutdown fight. It’s a demeanor that marks a notable shift for the famously even-tempered Speaker,

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is facing a lawsuit from the state of Arizona for not swearing in its new representative, a move the Speaker called “patently absurd.” Rep.-elect Adelita Letlow (D-Ariz.) won a special election on Sept. 23 to replace her late father, Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), who died in March, NBC News.

The House speaker has refused to swear in newly elected congresswoman Adelita Grijalva, who would be the deciding vote on a petition to release the files.

Rep. Julia Letlow (R-LA) set the record straight Monday after ABC News's Jon Karl attempted to fact-check the House Speaker over his delayed swearing in of a congresswoman-elect.

While the blame game in D.C. over the government shutdown gets louder, the effects on the ground so far in Louisiana have been minimal.

Republicans in Louisiana's congressional delegation are writing to DHS after a suspected Oct. 7 terrorist was arrested in their state after entering the U.S. over a year earlier.