Photos of the Week: Pence Casts Historic Vote, Gorsuch to the Hill and Warren Reads King
The week of Feb. 6 as captured by Roll Call’s photographers
Protesters gather in Upper Senate Park at the Capitol on Monday to call on senators to reject Secretary of Education nominee Betsy DeVos. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch became a staple in the halls of Congress this week, making the rounds to many senators’ offices.
Here is the entire week in photos:
House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., leaves a news conference at the RNC after a meeting of the House Republican Conference on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Vice President Mike Pence arrives at the Capitol to preside over the Senate and cast a tiebreaking vote on the confirmation of Betsy Devos to be secretary of Education on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., walks back to his office following the vote to confirm Betsy Devos to be secretary of Education on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Neil Gorsuch, Supreme Court nominee, meets with Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., in her Hart Building office on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
On Wednesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks in a television interview with Katie Couric, after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell‘s decision to invoke a rule to silence her during debate the night before. Warren was reading a 1986 letter written by Coretta Scott King about Jeff Sessions when he was being considered for another federal job. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Vice President Mike Pence arrives in the House-side carriage entrance of the Capitol for a meeting, on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
From left, Reps. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, Hank Johnson, D-Ga., Gwen Moore, D-Wis., Carol Shea-Porter, D-N.H., John Conyers, D-Mich., Jamie Raskin, D-Md., Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., and Lacy Clay, D-Mo., visit the statue of Martin Luther King, Jr., in the Capitol Rotunda before going to the Senate floor to protest the silencing of Warren. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
On Thursday, Neil Gorsuch, Supreme Court justice nominee, meets with Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, in her Dirksen Building office. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., conduct a news conference in the Capitol to speak out against Labor Secretary nominee Andy Puzder, CEO of CKE Restaurants. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, left, greets Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah, during a mock swearing-in ceremony for Sen. Luther Strange, R-Ala., in the Capitol’s Old Senate Chamber on Thursday. Strange filled Sessions’ senate seat. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
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