The Senate continued grappling with the reconciliation bill while the military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities dominated the news in the Capitol. Here are the images captured by CQ Roll Call photojournalists this week.
A busker wearing a Donald Trump mask poses with tourists outside the White House on Sunday. Tourists who asked to take a selfie with the man were asked for a $5 donation. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Capitol Police arrest protesting members of American Disabled for Attendant Programs Today (ADAPT) in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building on Tuesday. The protesters chanted, “No cuts to Medicaid,” while being arrested. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stops at the microphones to speak to reporters as he leaves the Senate Republican lunch in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., left, speaks with Sen. Michael D. Crapo, R-Idaho, in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)From left, Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, and ranking member Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., speak with staffers before the start of a confirmation hearing for Emil Bove, nominee to be a U.S. Circuit Judge for the 3rd Circuit, in the Hart Senate Office Building on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Attorney General Pamela Bondi testifies at a Senate Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the fiscal 2026 budget request for the Department of Justice in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, displays Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food and prenatal vitamins before a hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Wednesday. Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought testified. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Protesters interrupt the opening statement of Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., introduces his former aide, Jules W. Hurst III, right, nominee to be assistant secretary of the Army for manpower and reserve affairs, at a Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., shakes hands with Army Ranger veteran Sgt. Joseph J. Drake during the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony to honor all the Ranger veterans of World War II in the Capitol on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
