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Photos of the week | June 19-25, 2026

A U.S. Marshals officer searches the bag of a woman who was detained for dipping her hand into the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Monday. Officers from the Park Police, U.S. Marshals, National Guard and police from the Town of Mooresville, N.C., police responded to the incident after a National Park Service worker filmed the woman dipping her hand into the water. The woman was given a citation and released. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
A U.S. Marshals officer searches the bag of a woman who was detained for dipping her hand into the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Monday. Officers from the Park Police, U.S. Marshals, National Guard and police from the Town of Mooresville, N.C., police responded to the incident after a National Park Service worker filmed the woman dipping her hand into the water. The woman was given a citation and released. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted June 26, 2026 at 5:00am

Algae in the Reflecting Pool, a canceled bill signing, President Donald Trump’s lunch meeting with Senate Republicans, a time capsule and the Great American State Fair kickoff highlighted the week in the Capitol and around Washington. Here are images captured by CQ Roll Call photojournalists this week.

The children of Kaveh Farzad, left, nominee to be an assistant Energy secretary for international affairs, and his wife, Michaeline, attend his confirmation hearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Capt. Jason Ambrosi, left, president of the Air Line Pilots Association, talks with Chris Sununu, president and CEO of Airlines for America, before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Aviation, Space, and Innovation hearing on aviation safety in the Russell Senate Office Building on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., arrives for a news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters after a meeting of the House Republican Conference on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Rep. Suhas Subramanyam, D-Va., looks on as Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost, D-Fla., pretends to sign a bill on the stage set up for President Donald Trump to sign a housing bill in the Capitol on Wednesday. Trump abruptly canceled the signing earlier in the morning. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., takes a photo of reporters staking out President Donald Trump’s arrival for Senate Republicans’ lunch meeting in the Capitol on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he departs Senate Republicans’ lunch meeting in the Capitol on Wednesday. Trump is flanked from left by Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
The Semiquincentennial Congressional Time Capsule is seen during a ceremony in the Capitol on Wednesday. The capsule will be sealed for 250 years, until July 4, 2276. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
A B-2 stealth bomber flanked by four F-35 Lightning II jets fly past the Washington Monument during the rally to kick off the Great American State Fair on the National Mall on Wednesday evening. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., works on his laptop on a bench outside of the Cannon House Office Building on Thursday morning. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

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A U.S. Marshals officer searches the bag of a woman who was detained for dipping her hand into the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Monday. Officers from the Park Police, U.S. Marshals, National Guard and police from the Town of Mooresville, N.C., police responded to the incident after a National Park Service worker filmed the woman dipping her hand into the water. The woman was given a citation and released. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

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