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Photos of the Week: A House Tax Marathon as Senate Starts Action

The week of Nov. 6 as captured by Roll Call’s photographers

From left, Rep. Sam Johnson, Chairman Kevin Brady and ranking member Richard Neal open a House Ways and Means Committee markup of the Republicans’ tax overhaul plan in Longworth Building on Monday. Rep. David Schweikert also appears. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
From left, Rep. Sam Johnson, Chairman Kevin Brady and ranking member Richard Neal open a House Ways and Means Committee markup of the Republicans’ tax overhaul plan in Longworth Building on Monday. Rep. David Schweikert also appears. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
By Bill Clark
Posted November 10, 2017 at 5:03am

The House Ways and Means Committee finished its marathon markup of the GOP tax overhaul plan Thursday, as attention shifted to the Senate, which will be marking up its own version of the bill next week. 

Here’s the entire week in photos:

UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 06: A stack of the current income tax regulations sits on the dais during a House Ways and Means Committee markup of the Republicans' tax reform plan titled the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, in Longworth Building on November 6, 2017. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
A stack of current income tax regulations sits precariously on the dais during the Ways and Means markup. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 6: Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort leaves the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse after a court hearing on the terms of his bail and house arrest on Monday, Nov. 6, 2017. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort leaves the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse after a Monday court hearing on the terms of his bail and house arrest. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 07: From left, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Sens. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Steve Daines, R-Mont., attend a news conference in the Capitol where GOP senators said families and small businesses would benefit from tax reform on November 7, 2017. Administration officials and tax experts also voiced support for reform. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
From left, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Sens. John Barrasso and Steve Daines attend a Tuesday news conference in the Capitol at which GOP senators said families and small businesses would benefit from the tax overhaul. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 07: Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., ranking member, and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., right, talk with staff before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in Dirksen Building on a variety of nominations on November 7, 2017. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Ranking member Jack Reed and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen talk with staff before an Armed Services Committee hearing on a variety of nominations Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 8: Rep. Erik Paulsen, R-Minn., is reflected in a video monitor as he holds a conversation off to the side of the hearing room during the House Ways and Means Committee marks up tax reform legislation in the Longworth House Office Building on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Rep. Erik Paulsen is reflected in a video monitor as he holds a conversation off to the side of the hearing room during the Ways and Means tax bill markup. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 8: Microphones stand in front of a the bust of former Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth before the Democrats' press conference on tax reform outside of the House Ways and Means hearing room in the Longworth House Office Building on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Microphones stand in front of a the bust of former Speaker Nicholas Longworth before the Democrats’ Wednesday press conference on the GOP tax bill. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 08: Kirstjen Nielsen, Homeland Security Department secretary nominee, testifies during her Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee confirmation hearing in Dirksen Building on November 8, 2017. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Homeland Security Department secretary nominee Kirstjen Nielsen testifies during her Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee confirmation hearing Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 8: From left, Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., holds a pen and pad briefing with reporters in the Capitol on tax reform and the Virginia elections on Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
From left, Sen. Tim Kaine, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Mark Warner hold a Wednesday pen and pad briefing with reporters in the Capitol on the GOP tax bill and the Virginia elections. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 08: Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., attends a ceremony in Emancipation Hall to dedicate a chair to honor POW and MIA servicemembers on November 8, 2017. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Speaker Paul D. Ryan attends a Wednesday ceremony in Emancipation Hall to dedicate a chair to honor POW and MIA servicemembers. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 9: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., walks back to his office from the Senate floor in the Capitol on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell walks back to his office from the Senate floor in the Capitol on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 9: Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., gives a thumbs up to protesters calling for a clean Dream Act in the Hart Senate Office Building on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017. Protesters hung large banners from the upper floors and crowded the atrium before Capitol Police moved in to make arrests. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Sen. Bill Nelson gives a thumbs-up to protesters calling for action on immigration Thursday. Protesters hung large banners from the upper floors of the Hart Senate Office Building and crowded the atrium before Capitol Police moved in to make arrests. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 9: Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., walks up the House steps with his daughter Ellie for a vote in the Capitol on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Rep. Josh Gottheimer walks up the House steps with his daughter Ellie for a vote in the Capitol on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

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