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Capitol Lens | Waiting in the wings

By Tom Williams
Posted May 29, 2025 at 11:39am
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., lays flowers at the Capital Jewish Museum to honor Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim on Thursday. The Israeli Embassy staffers were shot and killed outside of an event at the museum on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | May 16-22, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted May 23, 2025 at 11:24am

Capitol Lens | Hearing the sad news

By Tom Williams
Posted May 21, 2025 at 3:30pm

Capitol Lens | Putting the ‘shh’ in Schumer

By Tom Williams
Posted May 20, 2025 at 4:38pm

Capitol Lens | Night moves

By Tom Williams
Posted May 19, 2025 at 4:55pm
Rep. Randy Weber, R-Texas, holds up his “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill” binder during the House Energy and Commerce Committee markup of the budget reconciliation legislation in the Rayburn office building on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | May 9-15, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted May 16, 2025 at 11:00am

Capitol Lens | Markup interuptus

By Tom Williams
Posted May 13, 2025 at 4:01pm

Capitol Lens | A K-9 shrine

By Tom Williams
Posted May 12, 2025 at 3:20pm
House Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman, R-Ark., listens as ranking member Jared Huffman, D-Calif., speaks with the aid of a “wreck-onciliation” poster during a markup of budget reconciliation legislation on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | May 2-May 8, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted May 9, 2025 at 9:48am

Capitol Lens | Cutting back

By Tom Williams
Posted May 5, 2025 at 2:46pm
Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, grabs one last puff of his cigar as he prepares the enter the Capitol for the last votes of the week on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | April 25-May 1, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted May 2, 2025 at 7:41am

Capitol Lens | Eagles eyed

By Tom Williams
Posted April 28, 2025 at 6:46pm

Capitol Lens | Mr. Smith goes to the Easter Egg Roll

By Tom Williams
Posted April 21, 2025 at 3:08pm
Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., left, high-fives Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., as he arrives for a vote in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | April 4-10, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted April 11, 2025 at 9:16am

Capitol Lens | HHS checkup

By Tom Williams
Posted April 9, 2025 at 5:47pm
Film director Oliver Stone arrives to testify to the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets hearing on the JFK files in the Capitol Visitor Center on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | March 28-April 3, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted April 4, 2025 at 10:12am
Visitors sit on the wall of the Tidal Basin while viewing cherry blossoms on Monday.

Capitol Lens | A bloom with a view

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted March 31, 2025 at 5:29pm
Corinna Delgado of DC News Now interviews “Teddy Roosevelt,” one of the Washington Nationals’ “Racing Presidents” mascots, during media preview day at Nationals Park on March 21. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | March 21-27, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted March 28, 2025 at 10:33am

Capitol Lens | Teddy talks

By Tom Williams
Posted March 24, 2025 at 1:33pm
Dayana Bergman, a military spouse, wipes tears after speaking during a town hall at Woodlawn High School in Woodlawn, Md., on Thursday with Sens. Angela Alsobrooks and Chris Van Hollen, Reps. Kweisi Mfume and John “Johnny O” Olszewski Jr., and Councilman Pat Young.

Photos of the week | March 17-21, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted March 21, 2025 at 2:35pm
Bubbles fly by as Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., speaks at a rally on the West Front of the Capitol on Monday. Several activists used bubble guns to blow bubbles over the rally. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | March 7-13, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted March 14, 2025 at 9:03am

Capitol Lens | What matters

By Tom Williams
Posted March 10, 2025 at 3:32pm

Focus on ‘The Eyes of History’

By Chris Hale, Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted March 10, 2025 at 2:18pm
Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, wears American flag shoes while doing a TV interview in the Capitol's Statuary Hall before President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | February 28-March 6, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted March 7, 2025 at 9:09am
Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., parks his Harley Davidson motorcycle as he arrives for a vote in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | February 21-27, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted February 28, 2025 at 11:11am
Staffers carry pizza boxes from We, The Pizza into the Capitol for the Senate's late-night vote-a-rama on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week ending February 21, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted February 21, 2025 at 10:48am
Mitch McConnell and his wife, Elaine Chao, address the Election Night crowd in Louisville, Ky., on Nov. 4, 2014, after the Kentucky Republican defeated Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes.

Capitol Lens | A Mitch in time

By Bill Clark, Tom Williams and Chris Hale
Posted February 20, 2025 at 3:04pm

Capitol Lens | Wake-up call

By Tom Williams
Posted February 18, 2025 at 1:31pm
Communications director Victoria Bonney arranges New Jersey-themed valentines in the office of Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week ending February 14, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted February 14, 2025 at 9:56am

Capitol Lens | Hungry hearts

By Tom Williams
Posted February 12, 2025 at 2:29pm
Wreckage from American Airlines flight 5342 is pulled from the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan National Airport on Monday. The plane collided with a U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter on Jan. 29, killing 67 people. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week ending February 7, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted February 7, 2025 at 9:46am

Capitol Lens | Seeking aid for USAID

By Tom Williams
Posted February 5, 2025 at 4:46pm

Capitol Lens | Wreckage retrieval

By Tom Williams
Posted February 3, 2025 at 2:51pm
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., right, holds a media availability Thursday with Senate Budget Committee Democrats in protest of the committee vote Russell Vought’s nomination to be director of the Office of Management and Budget. With Schumer, from left, are Sen. Alex Padilla of California, Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Sen. Patty Murray of Washington. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week ending January 31, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted January 31, 2025 at 10:36am
An artist sells prints outside the Capital One Arena before the inauguration of President Donald Trump on Monday. Trump addressed the crowd at the arena later in the day. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week ending January 24, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted January 24, 2025 at 9:30am

Capitol Lens | Babydog’s day

By Tom Williams
Posted January 22, 2025 at 1:16pm
Pete Hegseth, left, Trump's pick for secretary of Defense, and former Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., prepare to leave the hearing room after the Senate Armed Services Committee's confirmation hearing on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week ending January 17, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted January 17, 2025 at 9:22am
Carter family members touch the casket as they pay their respects during former President Jimmy Carter’s lying in state ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week ending January 10, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted January 10, 2025 at 9:58am
Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna speaks to reporters in the Capitol on Friday as she leaves a House Republican Conference meeting about averting a government shutdown before the holiday break.

Photos of the week ending December 20, 2024

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted December 20, 2024 at 3:09pm
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, his running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance and their families celebrate on stage at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee on the last night of the Republican National Convention on July 18.

News flashes: Roll Call’s best photos of the year, Part 2

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted December 19, 2024 at 6:00am

Capitol Lens | Elf awareness

By Tom Williams
Posted December 18, 2024 at 3:22pm
Children sled on the West Front of the Capitol on Jan. 16 after 3-4 inches of snow fell across the Washington metro area.

The best photos of the year, Part 1

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted December 17, 2024 at 6:00am
Former Democratic Rep. Andy Kim of New Jersey takes in John Trumbull’s “Declaration of Independence” painting in the Capitol Rotunda before his swearing-in to the Senate on Monday.

Photos of the week ending December 13, 2024

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted December 13, 2024 at 11:05am
Elon Musk carries his son on his shoulders as he arrives for a meeting in the Capitol Visitor Center with House and Senate Republicans to talk about President-elect Donald Trump's “Department of Government Efficiency” on Thursday. Vivek Ramaswamy also attended. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week ending December 6, 2024

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted December 6, 2024 at 3:40pm
A jet flies in front of the moon rising over the Capitol dome on Saturday night. The weekend’s full moon, also known as the Beaver Moon, was the final supermoon of the year. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week ending November 22, 2024

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted November 22, 2024 at 10:13am
The freshman members of the 119th Congress pose for their class photo on the House steps on Friday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week ending November 15, 2024

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted November 15, 2024 at 11:51am

Capitol Lens | Canine corporal

By Tom Williams
Posted November 14, 2024 at 4:44pm
The crowd waves signs before Vice President Kamala Harris spoke at a rally in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Monday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week ending November 1, 2024

By Tom Williams
Posted November 1, 2024 at 9:49am

Capitol Lens | Vise Squad

By Tom Williams
Posted October 30, 2024 at 3:57pm
A Halloween display featuring a dragon, Beetlejuice, a scarecrow and an inflatable Donald Trump stands in Griswold, Iowa, on Wednesday along with a campaign sign for Republican Rep. Zach Nunn. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week ending October 18, 2024

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted October 18, 2024 at 10:28am
Speaker Mike Johnson, left, appears with Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Scott Perry in Mechanicsburg, Pa., on Friday to help with Perry’s tight House race.

Photos of the week ending October 11, 2024

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted October 11, 2024 at 5:47pm

Capitol Lens | Heavy medals

By Tom Williams
Posted September 30, 2024 at 3:25pm
The statue of country music legend Johnny Cash is unveiled during a ceremony in Emancipation Hall on Tuesday. His daughter Rosanne Cash appears to the left of the statue, and Arkansas GOP Rep. Bruce Westerman is at right.

Photos of the week ending September 27, 2024

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted September 27, 2024 at 12:17pm
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., jokingly salutes an aide during a news conference in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Photos of the week ending September 20, 2024

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted September 20, 2024 at 6:54am

Capitol Lens | Presser cooker

By Tom Williams
Posted September 19, 2024 at 3:05pm
Congressional Gold Medals sit in front of photos of military servicemembers killed in the 2021 terrorist attack at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, before the start of the medal ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday.

Photos of the week ending September 13, 2024

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted September 13, 2024 at 9:45am

Capitol Lens | In remembrance

By Tom Williams
Posted September 11, 2024 at 4:09pm
President Joe Biden boards Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House en route to Wisconsin on Thursday.

Capitol Lens | Biden his time and a hiatus in Vegas

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted September 6, 2024 at 12:30pm
Balloons drop after Vice President Kamala Harris’ acceptance speech during the final night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Thursday.

Capitol Lens | DNC recap

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted August 23, 2024 at 12:14pm
Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota and Democratic vice-presidential nominee, is pictured on the United Center stage in Chicago on Wednesday after addressing the convention crowd. With him are, from left, his daughter Hope, son Gus and wife Gwen.

Capitol Lens | Wall-to-Walz coverage of Day 3 at the DNC

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted August 22, 2024 at 12:45pm
Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama appear onstage inside the United Center in Chicago on Tuesday, the second night of the Democratic National Convention.

Capitol Lens | Rock and roll call — DNC, Day 2

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted August 21, 2024 at 12:48pm
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden wave to the crowd at the 2024 Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago on Monday.

Capitol Lens | Democratic National Convention, Day 1

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted August 20, 2024 at 10:37am
Workers install a 2024 DNC banner to the exterior of the United Center in Chicago on August 14 as the city gears up for the for the Democratic National Convention.

Capitol Lens | Chicago prep

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted August 19, 2024 at 9:03am
Then-Rep.Tim Walz is pictured on the House steps after last votes on March 21, 2013.

Capitol Lens | Walz in the Capitol’s halls

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted August 6, 2024 at 1:14pm
House Oversight Chairman James R. Comer, R-Ky., and ranking member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., listen during a Secret Service oversight hearing Monday on the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.

Photos of the week ending July 26, 2024

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted July 26, 2024 at 9:55am
From left, former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, wife Melania, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, the vice presidential nominee, and his wife Usha Chilukuri Vance, celebrate on stage at the Fiserv Forum on Thursday, the final day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wis.

Photos of the week at the Republican National Convention

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted July 19, 2024 at 10:16am
Ohio Sen. JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, greets his wife, Usha Chilukuri Vance, after he addressed the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Wednesday.

Capitol Lens | Republican National Convention, Day 3

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted July 18, 2024 at 10:21am
Delegates dance in the Fiserv Forum on Tuesday, the second day of Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

Capitol Lens | Republican National Convention, Day 2

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted July 17, 2024 at 11:39am
Former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, greets his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, in Fiserv Forum on the first day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

Capitol Lens | Republican National Convention, Day 1

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted July 16, 2024 at 10:19am
South Carolina delegates Gerri McDaniel, left, and Cindy Risher pose for a photo outside of the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee on Saturday before the start of the Republican National Convention.

Capitol Lens | Calm before the storm

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted July 15, 2024 at 11:01am
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., leaves Senate Democrats’ meeting with Biden campaign officials at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee headquarters on Thursday.

Photos of the week ending July 12, 2024

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted July 12, 2024 at 9:05am
Fourth of July fireworks light up the sky over the National Mall in Washington on Thursday.

Capitol Lens | Muggy for the cameras

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted July 8, 2024 at 2:19pm
Fourth of July fireworks light up the sky over the National Mall in Washington on Thursday.

Photos of the week ending July 5, 2024

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted July 5, 2024 at 10:39am

Capitol Lens | Folk it up

By Tom Williams
Posted July 2, 2024 at 2:36pm
Fireworks explode over the Potomac River with the Capitol Dome in the background, marking the end of Clipper Race Fleet Week at The Wharf in Washington on Tuesday evening. The 11-ship fleet from the biennial race was docked at The Wharf.

Photos of the week ending June 28, 2024

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted June 28, 2024 at 8:38am

Capitol Lens | Foster the people

By Tom Williams
Posted June 26, 2024 at 3:44pm

Capitol Lens | Show chopper

By Tom Williams
Posted June 24, 2024 at 4:13pm
Prince George’s County Executive Angela Alsobrooks, the Democratic nominee for Maryland’s open U.S. Senate seat, greets a performer at the Scotland Juneteenth Heritage Festival at Cabin John Regional Park in Bethesda, Md., on Wednesday.

Capitol Lens | Juneteenth on the Maryland campaign trail

By Tom Williams
Posted June 20, 2024 at 2:34pm
Staffers roll Kodak the Bear from the office of Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., through the basement in the Dirksen Senate Office Building to the Russell Senate Office Building on Wednesday. Marty the Moose and Kodak the Bear made their annual migration to the Capitol from their home at White Mountain Attractions in North Woodstock, N.H., to participate in the Experience New Hampshire reception in the Kennedy Caucus Room on Wednesday evening.

Photos of the week ending June 14, 2024

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted June 14, 2024 at 9:37am

Capitol Lens | House of Usher

By Tom Williams
Posted June 12, 2024 at 3:33pm
Rapper and businessman Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is greeted by former Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the Capitol on Wednesday after Jackson and attorney Ben Crump met with congressional leaders about increasing minority representation in the multibillion-dollar luxury spirits industry.

Photos of the week ending June 7, 2024

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted June 7, 2024 at 1:19pm, Updated at 1:32pm

Capitol Lens | 2 cents from 50 Cent

By Tom Williams
Posted June 5, 2024 at 3:49pm

Capitol Lens | Hail to the Chief(s)

By Tom Williams
Posted June 3, 2024 at 1:40pm
A tour group is seen entering the Capitol Rotunda on Wednesday morning as sunlight illuminates the statues of Ulysses S. Grant, left, and Abraham Lincoln.

Photos of the week ending May 24, 2024

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted May 24, 2024 at 1:57pm
A double rainbow appears over Washington on Saturday evening.

Photos of the week ending May 17, 2024

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted May 17, 2024 at 11:46am

Capitol Lens | It’s Police Week

By Tom Williams
Posted May 13, 2024 at 3:35pm
Ducklings nap near their mother on the edge of the Capitol Reflecting Pool on Monday.

Photos of the week ending May 10, 2024

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted May 10, 2024 at 9:38am
The remains of Army Col. Ralph Puckett Jr., who was the last surviving Korean War Medal of Honor recipient before his death, are carried into the Capitol rotunda to lie in honor on Monday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week ending May 3, 2024

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted May 3, 2024 at 10:07am

Capitol Lens | Honor guard

By Tom Williams
Posted April 29, 2024 at 3:47pm
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during the House Homeland Security Committee hearing on the fiscal 2025 budget request for the Department of Homeland Security in the Cannon House Office Building on Tuesday.

Photos of the week ending April 19, 2024

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted April 19, 2024 at 1:44pm

Capitol Lens | Former Sen. Bob Graham, 1936–2024

By Tom Williams
Posted April 17, 2024 at 3:16pm
Sen. Joe Manchin III, D-W.Va., gathered outside the Capitol along with tourists and staffers on Monday to view the solar eclipse. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week ending April 12, 2024

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted April 12, 2024 at 9:16am

Capitol Lens | Prime directive

By Tom Williams
Posted April 11, 2024 at 3:32pm

Capitol Lens | O’s face

By Tom Williams
Posted March 28, 2024 at 7:05pm
Peak bloom cherry blossoms frame the Capitol dome on Wednesday, the first full day of spring.

Photos of the week ending March 22, 2024

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted March 22, 2024 at 2:04pm

Capitol Lens | On a roll

By Tom Williams
Posted March 18, 2024 at 3:29pm
Former Department of Justice Special Counsel Robert K. Hur watches a video of former President Donald Trump during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday about his report on President Joe Biden’s retention of classified materials.

Photos of the week ending March 15, 2024

By Tom Williams and Bill Clark
Posted March 15, 2024 at 3:13pm

Capitol Lens | Blink-ed In

By Tom Williams
Posted March 11, 2024 at 6:02pm
Sunset light illuminates the Capitol dome in Washington on Saturday evening.

Photos of the week ending March 8, 2024

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted March 8, 2024 at 12:37pm

Capitol Lens | Tebowing

By Tom Williams
Posted March 6, 2024 at 3:07pm