Photos of the week | September 12-18, 2025

Heard on the Hill

Photos of the week | September 12-18, 2025

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., conducts a news conference in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams

Posted September 19, 2025 at 9:10am

The late conservative activist Charlie Kirk was honored at the Capitol and a number of committees held high-profile hearings with Trump administration officials. Here are the images captured by CQ Roll Call photojournalists this week.

A photo of political media personality Charlie Kirk, his children and wife, Erika, stands after an all-member memorial service in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall on Monday. Kirk was assassinated during an event at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks to reporters in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

From left, attorney Abbe Lowell and former CDC Director Susan Monarez arrive for the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on leadership upheaval at the CDC in the Dirksen office building on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

FBI Director Kash Patel recites the Pledge of Allegiance during a House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing in the Rayburn office building on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., right, greets Ecumenical Patriarch and Archbishop of Constantinople Bartholomew I before their meeting in the Capitol on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Chairman James R. Comer, R-Ky., waits for witnesses to arrive for a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing in the Capitol on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Sens. Adam B. Schiff, D-Calif., at podium, Alex Padilla, D-Calif., center in background, and members of the California delegation conduct a news conference to reintroduce the Redistricting Reform Act outside the Capitol on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

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