Photos of the week: Shutdown averted, national emergency declared
The week of Feb. 11 as captured by Roll Call’s photographers
House Appropriations Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey, D-N.Y., walks across the Capitol from the House side Monday for a meeting with other appropriators to try to revive spending talks and avert a second government shutdown. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Washington also paused midweek to celebrate the life of the late Michigan Democratic Rep. John D. Dingell, who died last week.
Here’s the entire week in photos:
Reporters follow Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard Shelby, R-Ala., during a break in the meetings Monday with House and Senate appropriators. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., greets Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., wife of the late Rep. John D. Dingell, D-Mich., as the hearse containing Dingell’s casket stops at the House steps of the Capitol on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Bridgett Taylor and Pete Filon, former aides to Dingell, look on as the hearse containing his casket stops in front of the Capitol on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Workers renovate the House Transportation and Infrastructure hearing room in the Rayburn Building on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Watch: ‘Rest in well-deserved Peace,’ Boehner’s full eulogy to John Dingell in 6 minutes
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CodePink protesters stand behind Elliott Abrams, the U.S. special representative for Venezuela, on Wednesday as he prepares to testify at a House Foreign Affairs hearing on “Venezuela at a Crossroads.” (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)J. David Cox Sr., president of the American Federation of Government Employees, holds up his fist Wednesday as federal workers hold a silent protest for 35 minutes in the Hart Building to call on lawmakers and President Donald Trump to keep the government open. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Jim Risch, R-Idaho, left, and ranking member Robert Menendez, D-N.J., wait Thursday for Colombian President Iván Duque Márquez to arrive for a meeting with committee members in the Capitol. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., conducts her weekly news conference Thursday in the Capitol Visitor Center as Congress prepares to vote on the government funding package. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Capitol Police escort Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, through reporters to the Senate subway Thursday following the vote on the government funding measure. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
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