Photos of the week | March 13-19, 2026

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams

Posted March 20, 2026 at 11:17am

St. Patrick’s Day, a hearing on worldwide threats and a confirmation hearing for the nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security highlighted this week in the Capitol. Here are images captured by CQ Roll Call photojournalists this week.

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., stops to speak with reporters after a news conference in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., walk through Statuary Hall to the speaker’s office after the Friends of Ireland luncheon in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

FBI Director Kash Patel testifies at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats in the Hart Senate Office Building on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Senate Homeland Security Chairman Rand Paul, R-Ky., left, listens to Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., nominee to be secretary of Homeland Security, testify during his confirmation hearing on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Ranking member Jack Reed, D-R.I., right, looks on as Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., checks his watch as he arrives for a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Rep. Jodey C. Arrington, R-Texas, talks with reporters outside the Capitol on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Ohio’s Kaptur set for rematch with Merrin in bid for 23rd House term

Donald Trump greets Indiana's Jim Banks at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July 2024. Banks, now the state's junior senator, hailed Tuesday's defeat of several GOP state senators who opposed an attempt to redraw the state's congressional map. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Indiana GOP legislators who defied Trump on redistricting are defeated

Sen. Bill Cassidy speaks to reporters on the first day of early voting outside of the Louisiana State Archives on Saturday in Baton Rouge, La.

Cassidy calls for expedited abortion pill review as primary nears

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth takes questions during a press briefing at the Pentagon on Tuesday. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

US military actions test Trump’s claim the Iran war is over

President Donald Trump conducts a news conference in the White House briefing room about the war in Iran on April 6.

Trump shrugs off high gas prices, creating political headwinds for GOP

Customs and Border Protection would get $26 billion in the bill. Above, a CBP agent processes migrants that recently crossed the border in the Rio Grande Valley sector of Texas in 2019. (Jinitzail Hernández/CQ Roll Call)

Heard on the Hill