Photos of the Week: Amid impeachment battle, members pay respect to Cummings
The week of Oct. 25 as captured by Roll Call’s photojournalists
House Judiciary Committee members, from left, Reps. David Cicilline, D-R.I., Jamie Raskin, D-Md., and Joe Neguse, D-Colo., arrive for the House Democrats’ caucus meeting in the Capitol on Tuesday morning. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
This week the Capitol was consumed with impeachment depositions, the storming of the SCIF, and a guy named Zuckerberg.
But the partisan sides were able to come together, briefly, to honor the lives of Rep. Elijah Cummings and Sen. Ted Stevens.
Bill Taylor, the acting U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, arrives at the Capitol for his deposition related to the House's impeachment inquiry on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Mark Zuckerberg's view for his appearance before the House Financial Services Facebook hearing on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., at podium, speaks along with fellow Republicans outside the Secure Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) in the Capitol Visitor Center, where Laura Cooper, deputy assistant secretary of Defense, was to give a deposition related to the House’s impeachment inquiry on Wednesday. The Republican members were calling for access to the transcripts and testimony from the investigation. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Brett McGurk, off camera, former special envoy to counter ISIS, leave Schumer's office on their way to the Democrats' lunch in the Capitol on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)House Transportation Committee chairman Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., talks about air travel in his office in the Rayburn House Office Building on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Catherine Stevens, far left, the widow of the late Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, attends a portrait unveiling for the senator with family members and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., right, and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., in the Old Senate Chamber on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Rep. Elijah Cummings' widow Maya Rockeymoore Cummings and family members look on as Cummings’ casket is carried by members of the honor guard up the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Thursday. Cummings was the first black lawmaker to lie in state in the Capitol. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Cummings’ casket is carried through the Capitol Rotunda to Statuary Hall for a memorial service on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., holds a press conference on the impeachment of President Donald Trump on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
