2025 was a year like no other on Capitol Hill, including a new congressional majority, a state funeral for a former president, long nights of work on Republicans’ “big, beautiful” budget bill and plenty of high-profile protests on the streets of Washington against the second Trump administration. Roll Call’s photojournalists share their most memorable news images from the past year.
A sign for incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., is installed on his new office door in the Capitol on the first day of the 119th Congress on Jan. 3. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)The military honor guard carries the casket of the late former President Jimmy Carter into the Capitol Rotunda to lie in state on Jan. 7. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
The wreckage of American Airlines flight 5342 is pulled from the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Feb. 3. The plane collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter on Jan. 29, killing 67 people. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., left, and Jim Justice, R-W.Va., high five as they wheel past each other at the Senate subway on Feb. 20. McConnell announced his retirement plans later that day. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., holds a sign as President Donald Trump delivers his address to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber on March 4. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., right, talks with Chairman Bill Cassidy, R-La., duringa Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on the HHS budget in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on May 14. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, listens to remarks by Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, D-Va., about the late ranking member Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, D-Va., during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee meeting on May 21. Connolly had died that day due to esophageal cancer. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and House Republicans give a thumbs up during the enrollment ceremony of One Big Beautiful Bill Act in the Capitol after the House passed the bill on July 3. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, poses for a photo op before a meeting with senators in the Capitol on July 9. Also appearing are, from left, Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)From left, 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 Sept. 3 news conference with survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse calling on Congress to vote for a bill to release the Epstein files. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)A protest billed as “We Are All DC: A National March” proceeds down 16th Street Northwest towards the White House in Washington on Sept. 6. Thousands of demonstrators marched to protest Trump’s deployment of military troops in D.C. and federalization of the local police. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., talks on the phone in the Senate Reception Room before holding a news conference on the government shutdown in the Capitol on Oct. 29. The shutdown, which lasted through all of October and part of November, was the longest in U.S. history. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
