We’re back with a shortened post-holiday week packed with action, including the Jeffrey Epstein survivors news conference and a raucous Senate Finance Committee hearing with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Here are the images captured by CQ Roll Call photojournalists this week.
An activist waves a “Don’t Tread On DC” flag outside Union Station during a protest in Washington on Tuesday. FLARE (For Liberation and Resistance Everywhere) organized the “Remove the Regime” protest which called for the removal of President Donald Trump from the White House. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Congressional staffers erect Republican Study Committee posters in an attempt to block protesters from view of TV cameras before the start of the RSC’s news conference on Congress’s Article 1 power over Washington at the House Triangle outside the Capitol on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., speaks during the news conference outside the Capitol with Jeffrey Epstein survivors calling on members of Congress to vote for the bill known as the Epstein Files Transparency Act on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., hugs Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., as Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., looks on at the conclusion of their news conference with Epstein survivors on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., conducts a news conference in the Capitol after a meeting of the House Republican Conference on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., references the Republican budget law known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act during a news conference after the Senate Democrats’ lunch meeting in the Capitol on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Debra Willett, the granddaughter of Sgt. Leander Willett of the Harlem Hellfighters of World War I, accepts a Congressional Gold Medal from Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., right, to honor the Hellfighters in Emancipation Hall on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Reps. Glenn F. Ivey, D-Md., and Ayanna S. Pressley, D-Mass., conduct a news conference with Free DC and members of the city council “to oppose Donald Trump’s unlawful federal law enforcement surge in Washington, D.C.,” outside of the Capitol on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Rep. Sarah McBride, D-Del., is interviewed by Don Lemon outside of the Capitol after the last votes of the week on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies during the Senate Finance Committee hearing on “The President’s 2026 Health Care Agenda” on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)A United Airlines jet passes by a rainbow over Washington as it comes in for a landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Thursday evening. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
