Photos of the Week: Congress is back from recess, and we’ve got photos to prove it
The week of May 3 as captured by Roll Call’s photographers
A poster of President Donald Trump and the wax figure of singer Whitney Houston are on display as a window washer cleans the windows at Madame Tussauds wax museum in Washington on Monday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Congress is back from recess, and we have the photos to prove it.
Here are some of the scenes captured by Roll Call’s photographers around Capitol Hill during the week of May 3.
Actress Alyssa Milano, using live twitter video, speaks with ERA activists waiting to enter the House Judiciary Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee hearing on the Equal Rights Amendment on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, conducts a news conference after a meeting of the Caucus in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, center, Reps. Rodney Davis, R-Ill., right, and Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., assemble care packages in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Tuesday for the USO to distribute to service members. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Balloons reading “think babies” were handed out to participants of the third annual Strolling Thunder at the Capitol on Tuesday. The event was held to urge Congress to pass comprehensive national paid leave and affordable, quality child care. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., talks with a group from Fort Thomas, Ky., before the Senate policy luncheons in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Secretary of State Mike Pompeo leaves the Capitol after attending the Senate Republicans’ policy lunch in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Attorney General William Barr arrives to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on “The Department of Justice’s Investigation of Russian Interference with the 2016 Presidential Election,” on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Attorney General William Barr takes his seat before the start of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Actor Ben Stiller, left, a goodwill ambassador for United Nations Human Rights Council, and Chairman James Risch, R-Idaho, talk as they walk to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on “The Humanitarian Impact of Eight Years of War in Syria,” on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)A committee staffer adjusts the nameplate for Attorney General William Barr before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Russian interference in the 2016 election and the Mueller report on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., eats fried chicken from KFC to make the point that Attorney General William Barr was too chicken to show up for the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Russian interference in the 2016 election and the Robert Mueller report on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
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