While rock star Gene Simmons was on the Hill to testify this week, it’s almost time to KISS this year goodbye as Congress has one more week to get its work done before a scheduled holiday recess. Here are the images captured by CQ Roll Call photojournalists this week.
KISS bassist and co-lead singer Gene Simmons takes his seat at the witness table for a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property hearing on radio royalties for artists in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Tuesday. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., leaves the Senate floor in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth arrives at the Capitol for a briefing with Senate leaders on Tuesday to discuss the military strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean Sea. CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine and Secretary of State Marco Rubio also attended. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Rep. Bill Huizenga, R-Mich., shows off his Detroit Lions cup to photographers as he leaves the House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., and her 4-month-old daughter, Augusta Dair, leave the House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., speaks to reporters as he leaves the House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., calls on reporters during a House Republican news conference in the Capitol on Wednesday. Behind Johnson, from left, are Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-Va., Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Mich., House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Becky Roberts of Virginia Beach, Va., who was born with a dislocated hip, talks with Sens. Andy Kim, D-N.J., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., right, about her experience with rising health care costs during a news conference in the Capitol on Wednesday to urge the Senate to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, flashes a peace sign in the Cannon tunnel on Wednesday. Cook did not disclose to reporters why he was on Capitol Hill. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)From left, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., Rabbi Levi Shemtov, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., participate in a Menorah lighting in the Capitol on Wednesday to celebrate Hanukkah. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
