Photos of the week | May 9-15, 2025

Heard on the Hill

Photos of the week | May 9-15, 2025

Rep. Randy Weber, R-Texas, holds up his “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill” binder during the House Energy and Commerce Committee markup of the budget reconciliation legislation in the Rayburn office building on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams

Posted May 16, 2025 at 11:00am

Budget reconciliation week, Police Week, and the ACLI race highlighted the week in Washington. CQ Roll Call photojournalists were there to capture the action.

City of Fairfax Police Department MPO Vann Sayasithsena and K-9 Valor, lay a rose for Titan, a Coweta County, Ga., Sheriff’s Office dog who was killed while charging an armed suspect in November of 2024, during the National Police K-9 Memorial Service to honor fallen police K-9s at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial on Sunday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Reporters and aides watch Marine One, with President Donald Trump abroad, lift off the South Lawn of the White House en route to the Middle East on Monday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Demonstrators calling for preservation of Medicaid funding are removed from the House Energy and Commerce markup of the budget reconciliation bill in the Rayburn building on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, gestures after finishing the ACLI Capital Challenge three-mile race as the fastest member of Congress in Anacostia Park on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., his wife, Carmen, right, and their son, Wally, finish the ACLI Capital Challenge three-mile race in Anacostia Park on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., followed by staffers, runs to board the Senate subway after a vote in the Capitol on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., right, talks with Chairman Bill Cassidy, R-La., during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on the fiscal 2026 budget request in the Dirksen office building on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

A protester is arrested by Capitol Police after disrupting the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on the fiscal 2026 budget for the Department of Health and Human Services in the Dirksen office building on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Activists begin to gather with signs Thursday outside the Supreme Court before justices heard oral arguments on President Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., stops outside the House chamber to speak to reporters about the ongoing budget reconciliation negotiations in the Capitol on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., arrives for a meeting in the Capitol Visitor Center on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

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