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Photos of the week | July 10-16, 2026

A National Guard soldier is seen inside the perimeter of the Great American State Fair as attractions were being disassembled on Sunday. The fair ran from June 25th to July 10th.
A National Guard soldier is seen inside the perimeter of the Great American State Fair as attractions were being disassembled on Sunday. The fair ran from June 25th to July 10th. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted July 17, 2026 at 6:00am

Congress returned from the July Fourth recess this week to the news of Sen. Lindsey Graham’s death. Highlights of the week included confirmation hearings for Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and DNI nominee Jay Clayton, national hot dog day and the start of a new reconciliation process in the House Budget Committee. Here are images captured by CQ Roll Call photojournalists this week.

Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, speaks during a TV news interview in the Russell Senate Office Building on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., walks past flowers left at Sen. Lindsey Graham’s office on Tuesday. Graham, R-S.C., died suddenly on July 11. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., attends a news conference at the Republican National Committee after a meeting of the House Republican Conference on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Justices Elena Kagan, left, and Amy Coney Barrett testify during the House Financial Services Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the Supreme Court budget in the Rayburn House Office Building on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Sens. Darline Graham, R-S.C., and Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, arrive for her ceremonial swearing-in after she was sworn in on the Senate floor on Tuesday. Graham was appointed to the seat of her brother, the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche takes a seat at the witness table for his confirmation hearing to be attorney general in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Jay Clayton, nominee to be director of national intelligence, arrives for his Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Wednesday. Chairman Tom Cotton, R-Ark., right, and ranking member Mark Warner, D-Va., also appear. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Chairman Tim Scott, R-S.C., and ranking member Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., talk during the Senate Banking hearing titled “The Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress,” in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Wednesday. Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh testified. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Alex Forsberg, an intern in Sen. Elissa Slotkin’s office, emerges from a side room after slipping into a hot dog costume as the Taste of Michigan National Hot Dog Day event gets underway in the Kennedy Caucus Room in the Russell Senate Office Building on Wednesday. Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., and Slotkin, D-Mich., hosted the event featuring hot dogs and other treats from Michigan. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
From left, ranking member Brendan F. Boyle, D-Pa., listens as chairman Jodey C. Arrington, R-Texas, opens the House Budget Committee’s markup of the “Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2027” in the Cannon House Office Building on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

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