A looming government shutdown, UFOs, a new member of Congress and reaction to the assassination of Charlie Kirk highlight this week’s action around the Capitol. Here are the images captured by CQ Roll Call photojournalists this week.
Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., talks with reporters outside the Capitol on Thursday about the murder of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk. Van Orden blamed the media for Kirk’s death. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., left, conducts the ceremonial swearing in of Rep. James Walkinshaw, D-Va., in the Capitol after Walkinshaw was sworn in on the House floor on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, talks with guests on Wednesday during a rally outside the Capitol to urge Congress to pass legislation that would require proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Former Meta researchers Jason Sattizahn and Cayce Savage are sworn in Tuesday for a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on their whistleblower claims that Meta hid research about harms to children. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., conducts a news conference in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., conducts a news conference in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee ranking member Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., holds a news conference with doctors and public health experts in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Tuesday to highlight the importance of vaccines in protecting children, families and communities. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)KLAS-TV journalist George Knapp of Las Vegas waves to Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., as he arrives to testify at a House Oversight and Government Reform Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets Subcommittee hearing on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs, better known as UFOs) in the Capitol Visitor Center on Tuesday. Jeremy Corbell, filmmaker and ufologist, stands to the right behind Knapp. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)The “We Are All DC” march proceeds down 16th Street Northwest towards the White House in Washington on Saturday. Thousands of protesters marched to call for an “immediate withdrawal of federal troops from the District and an end to the federalization of the local police department.” (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
