Photos of the week ending February 9, 2024

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Photos of the week ending February 9, 2024

Former Rep. Tom Suozzi, thr Democratic candidate for New York’s 3rd Congressional District, waves after a campaign rally in Port Washington, N.Y., on Saturday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams

Posted February 9, 2024 at 9:58am

Former Rep. Tom Suozzi’s campaign in New York, the demise of the Senate border deal and House Democrats’ policy retreat were just some of the highlights of this week. CQ Roll Call photojournalists were there to capture the action.

Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., left, and Sen. Christopher S. Murphy, D-Conn., right, attempt to save their border deal during simultaneous TV news interviews in the Russell Senate Office Building on Monday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen arrives to testify at a House Financial Services Committee hearing titled “The Annual Report of the Financial Stability Oversight Council” in the Rayburn House Office Building on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., are reflected in a television camera lens during a press conference in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., holds a Border Patrol challenge coin as she speaks about Republicans abandoning the bipartisan border deal at a press conference in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, speaks with Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., off camera, outside the Senate chamber on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Rep. Rick Larsen, D-Wash., carries a guitar outside the Rayburn House Office Building before boarding a bus to House Democrats’ retreat held in Leesburg, Va., on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., left, laughs as he puts DPCC Chair Joe Neguse, D-Colo., on the spot to answer a reporter’s question at the opening news conference of House Democrats’ retreat in Leesburg, Va., on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., wears his Kansas City Chiefs jersey in the Capitol after the Senate voted against advancing a border security deal on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Harry Dunn, a former U.S. Capitol Police officer, poses for a photo at the Maryland State Board of Elections office in Annapolis on Thursday after officially filing his candidacy for Congress in Maryland’s 3rd District. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

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