Protesters chant outside the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee office where Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner was meeting with Democratic senators in Washington on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
It was a packed week on Capitol Hill, as former Attorney General Pamela Bondi, Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, Texas Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and legendary football coach Nick Saban all made appearances. However, the absent Rep. Thomas H. Kean Jr., R-N.J. — who hasn’t been seen in months — did not appear. Here are images captured by CQ Roll Call photojournalists this week.
Former Attorney General Pamela Bondi arrives in the Rayburn House Office Building on May 29 for a closed-door interview with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on her role in the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein files. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)A protester from the activist group CodePink, dressed in a priestly cassock, holds a sign reading, “Let Cuba live,” as Secretary of State Marco Rubio prepares to testify to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Protesters hold a sign reading, “It’s all a heist,” outside the Capitol on Tuesday during a news conference on President Donald Trump’s IRS lawsuit settlement and the $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund.” (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Former University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban arrives to testify at a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing on name, image and likeness regulations in college sports on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrives Wednesday outside the Rayburn House Office Building for a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the State Department’s fiscal 2027 budget request. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)The nameplate of Rep. Thomas H. Kean Jr., R-N.J., is seen before a Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on Wednesday. Kean has been absent from the Capitol for about three months. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Texas Attorney General and Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton departs from his meeting with Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., in the Capitol on Wednesday. Paxton defeated Sen. John Cornyn in Texas’ GOP primary runoff on May 26. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Kids and staffers play in the Congressional Chess Tournament hosted with the St. Louis Chess Club in the Russell Senate Office Building on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., enters a lunch meeting in the Capitol on Thursday during the Senate’s “vote-a-rama” on a budget reconciliation bill. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
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