Senate staffers look out of their office as Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., speaks to the gathered media outside his office in the Hart Senate Office Building about his alleged sexual misconduct on Monday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Franken speaks to the gathered media outside his office in the Hart Senate Office Building about his alleged sexual misconduct on Monday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Rep. John Curtis, R-Utah, talks about his sock collection during an interview in his Rayburn Building office on Monday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., takes a picture of the media set up for the arrival of President Donald Trump to the Republican Senate policy luncheon in the Capitol to discuss the tax overhaul bill on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
President Donald Trump arrives with Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., left, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., for the Republican Senate policy luncheon in the Capitol to discuss the tax bill on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Protesters disrupt the Senate Budget Committee markup of the tax bill in Dirksen Building on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, talks with reporters after the House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Reps. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, talk after their respective conference meetings in the Capitol on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and Rep. Kristi Noem, R-S.D., leave the House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Brenna Coco of Richmond, Va., takes a bouquet of flowers from the “Wall of Love” near the west front reflecting pool of the Capitol on Wednesday. The wall, meant for passersby to feel “unity and hope” during the holiday season, will read “love” after the flowers are gone. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
McConnell arrives for a news conference in Dirksen Building on the importance of passing the tax bill for small businesses on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., arrives to hold her weekly on camera news conference in the Capitol on Thursday. Pelosi called on Rep. John Conyers Jr. to resign during the news conference. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., holds his weekly on camera news conference in the Capitol on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Reindeer wander off at the end of the Senate Democrats’ news conference and rally opposing drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge at the Capitol on Thursday. A number of activists dressed up as polar bears and reindeer for the event. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
David Barrows, dressed as a billionaire, stands in front of the Capitol as the Senate moves closer to passing its tax overhaul plan on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
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