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Photos of the week | April 17-23, 2026

A worker navigates the scaffolding outside the Russell Senate Office Building with the Capitol dome in the background on Monday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
A worker navigates the scaffolding outside the Russell Senate Office Building with the Capitol dome in the background on Monday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Another new member of Congress was sworn in, budget hearings dominated the Hill and a big redistricting referendum vote passed in Virginia this week. Here are images captured by CQ Roll Call photojournalists.

Advocates attend a news conference with Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., about the “impact of incarcerating those charged with marijuana-related offenses,” outside the Capitol on Monday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Rep.-elect Analilia Mejía, left, talks with fellow New Jersey Democratic Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman and LaMonica McIver, right, before her swearing-in ceremony on Monday. Mejía won the special election for the seat previously held by Gov. Mikie Sherrill. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Senate Banking Chairman Tim Scott, R-S.C., right, talks with Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., during the confirmation hearing for Kevin Warsh, nominee to be chairman of the Federal Reserve, in Dirksen Senate Office Building on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Sens. Tina Smith, D-Minn., right, and Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., confer during the Senate Banking Committee’s confirmation hearing for Kevin Warsh, nominee for chairman of the Federal Reserve, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
A name plate for Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., is seen at a House Ethics Committee hearing in the Longworth House Office Building on Tuesday regarding allegations of financial misconduct. Cherfilus-McCormick resigned from Congress minutes before the hearing was to begin. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent arrives for a Senate Financial Services Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the president’s fiscal 2027 budget request, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick arrives for a Senate Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the president’s fiscal 2027 budget request, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., attends a news conference after Virginia voters approved a redistricting plan, at the Democratic National Committee on Wednesday. President Donald Trump and James Blair, who will run Republican midterm operations, appear on the poster. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
A Capitol Police countersniper stands guard atop the House steps during the final vote of the week on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

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