After 43 days of repeated attempts in Congress to reopen the government, the longest government shutdown in history came to an end on Wednesday night. And an even longer wait came to an end when Rep. Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz., was finally sworn in, 50 days after her special election. Here are the images captured by CQ Roll Call photojournalists this week.
A Capitol Police officer stands guard outside the Capitol before the House vote on the Senate-passed bill to reopen the government on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., left, and Rep. Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz., respond to a question from the media after her ceremonial swearing-in in the Capitol on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., conducts a rally with House Democrats on the steps of the Capitol on Wednesday to oppose the Senate-passed spending bill that would reopen the government. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Bill Christeson holds a sign referencing the Jeffrey Epstein files outside the Capitol on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Vietnam War veteran John Bickford of Maryland visits the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Tuesday, which was Veterans Day. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Witold “Victor” Brick, 102, of Loudon County, Va., participates in a wreath-laying ceremony at the National World War II Memorial on Veterans Day on Tuesday. Brick was born in Warsaw, Poland, served in the Polish resistance and was a prisoner of war until being liberated by Gen. George Patton’s army in 1945. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., returns to his office in the Capitol after briefing the media on Monday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)A Delta Airlines jet passes by the Capitol dome in Washington as it comes in for a landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Sunday. Starting on Nov. 7 the Federal Aviation Administration forced airlines to cut 10 percent of flights at 40 busy airports, including Washington National, to reduce the load on air traffic controllers during the government shutdown. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
