Photos of the week | June 12-16, 2026

Storm clouds, fireworks, the D.C. primary and FISA drama highlighted this week in the capital and the Senate, while the House took the week off. Here are images captured by CQ Roll Call photojournalists this week.

Passing thunderstorm clouds are illuminated by the setting sun in Washington on Friday evening. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

President Donald Trump’s nominee to be attorney general, Todd Blanche, center, arrives to meet with Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, in the Hart Senate Office Building on Monday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., talks with reporters outside a Senate Budget Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

A voter fills out her ballot for the District of Columbia’s primary election at the Calvary Episcopal Church in Washington on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Chairman Bill Cassidy, R-La., confers with an aide during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee markup in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., walks from the Senate floor to his office on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

From left, Sens. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., Mark Warner, D-Va., Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., conduct a news conference in the Capitol after Trump pulled Jay Clayton, nominee for director of National Intelligence, out of his planned confirmation hearing and called for a voter ID bill to be attached to any extension of foreign surveillance authorities on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh concludes a news conference after a meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday. Warsh announced that interest rates would remain unchanged. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)