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Photos of the week | April 10-16, 2026

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks at the Virginians for Fair Maps rally in Bridgewater, Va., on Saturday. Virginia voters will decide on April 21st if Virginia congressional districts will be redrawn to counter the Texas redistricting. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks at the Virginians for Fair Maps rally in Bridgewater, Va., on Saturday. Virginia voters will decide on April 21st if Virginia congressional districts will be redrawn to counter the Texas redistricting. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted April 17, 2026 at 6:00am

Virginia’s map referendum, Days of Remembrance ceremony, Melania Trump and a Nick Offerman appearance highlighted the week in Congress. Here are images captured by CQ Roll Call photojournalists.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., flanked by Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., left, and congressional candidate Tom Perriello, D-Va., speaks at the Virginians for Fair Elections rally in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday. Jeffries urged voters to vote yes on the map refrendum on April 21st. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick attends the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s National Commemoration of the Days of Remembrance ceremony in Emancipation Hall on Tuesday. During the ceremony, a Congressional Gold Medal was presented to the family of Benjamin Ferencz, who served in the U.S. Army during World War II and prosecuted Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Members of the U.S. Army Honor Guard light candles during the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s National Commemoration of the Days of Remembrance ceremony in Emancipation Hall on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Sen. Dave McCormick, R-Pa., leaves the Senate Republicans’ lunch meeting in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Rep. Pat Ryan, D-N.Y., left, speaks with Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., on the House steps after a vote on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., references higher prices while questioning Internal Revenue Service CEO Frank Bisignano during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on IRS operations on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Actor Nick Offerman holds a discussion about historian Candice Millard’s book “Destiny of the Republic” and Offerman’s role in the miniseries “Death by Lightning” in the Capitol on Wednesday. The discussion was held by the U.S. Capitol Historical Society. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
First lady Melania Trump and House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., arrive for a discussion on legislation to protect America’s foster children in the Longworth House Office Building on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Smith, left, and ranking member Richard E. Neal, D-Mass., talk before the start of the House Ways and Means Committee hearing with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the Longworth House Office Building on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

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