Photos of the Week: House Heads Out Early, Senate Welcomes a Baby
The week of April 16 as captured by Roll Call’s photographers
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., walks up the House steps as he arrives at the Capitol for the final votes of the week Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
House members scrambled out of town on Wednesday this week — a day earlier than originally scheduled. And on Thursday the Senate made history by welcoming an infant onto the chamber’s floor. Sen. Tammy Duckworth gave birth on April 9, and the rules were changed to accommodate the new mom.
Without further ado, here’s the entire week in photos:
Dr. Ronny Jackson, nominee for secretary of Veterans Affairs, arrives for a meeting with Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., in the Russell Building on Monday. Isakson is the chairman of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Seats are reserved for staff at the House Armed Services Committee hearing Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, holds a sample of a postcard-style tax filing card during a news conference in the House studio after a meeting of the GOP Conference. McCarthy, right, and Speaker Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., also appear.(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., and staff walk along the Senate subway tracks after being evacuated from the underground train for routine maintenance. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney prepares to testify before the House Appropriations Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee in the Rayburn Building on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Rep. John Curtis, R-Utah, talks on his phone outside the Capitol on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Rev. Patrick J. Conroy, chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives, blesses a walnut tree during a ceremony in memory of Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and Reps. Gwen Moore, D-Wis., and Paul Tonko, D-N.Y., listen to a rendition of “Amazing Grace” during a memorial service for the late Rep. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall on Wednesday. Slaughter, pictured at left, died on March 16 at age 88. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, left, and Orrin G. Hatch, R-Utah, of the Joint Select Committee on Solvency of Multiemployer Pension Plans, conduct a hearing on the pension system in the Dirksen Building on Wednesday. ( Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Reps. Rick Allen, R-Ga., Ralph Norman, R-S.C., and Brian Babin, R-Texas, stop to chat with Miss South Carolina Tori Sizemore as they arrive at the Capitol for the final votes of the week on Wednesday. Several Miss USA pageant contestants were on the House steps to pose for an earlier photo with Rep. Robert Aderholt, R-Ala. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., arrives for a vote in the Capitol on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., brings her baby, Maile Pearl, into the Capitol for a vote on Thursday. Earlier in the week, a resolution was passed to allow infants on the floor for votes. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
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