The House sprinted to the exits on Thursday for their summer recess while the Senate is scheduled to stick around for two more weeks. Here are some of the images captured by CQ Roll Call photojournalists this past week.
An aide hands papers to House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, before his testimony to the House Rules Committee hearing in the Capitol on Monday. Rep. Morgan McGarvey of Kentucky, right, represents the House Budget Committee Democrats. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Rep. Riley Moore, R-W.Va., and his daughters leave a House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Rep. Mark Messmer, R-Ind., is reflected in a hallway mirror as he waits for an elevator after the House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Ranking member Melanie Stansbury, D-N.M., makes rabbit ears behind Chairman Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., before the House Oversight and Government Reform Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee hearing titled “Rewriting American History: Examining the Smithsonian’s Efforts to Reshape the Past,” in the Rayburn House Office Building on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., looks at the “Communist Poland line for toilet paper” poster on stage as he arrives for the House Republican Conference press briefing following their caucus meeting in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Rep. James R. Walkinshaw, D-Va., displays a picture of Jackie Robinson while speaking during the House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee hearing on the Smithsonian in the Rayburn House Office Building on Tuesday. The Defense Department removed and then restored a webpage on Robinson’s military service. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)U.S. Capitol Police move in to remove anti-war protesters interrupting Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth testifying during the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on the administration’s supplemental funding request in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Tuesday. Also testifying were Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. John Caine and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)A House of Representatives official carries the ceremonial Mace of the U.S. House of Representatives into an elevator to deliver it to the House floor before the body convened for its last voting session before the August recess on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Sen. Darline Graham, R-S.C., places her nameplate as she arrives for the Senate Judiciary Committee markup in the Hart Senate Office Building on judicial nominations on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Rep. Nikema Williams, D-Ga., walks down the House steps after the last votes before the August recess on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)From left, Sens. Adam B. Schiff and Alex Padilla, both D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., escort two World Series trophies to the Los Angeles Dodgers visit with the California delegation in the Russell Senate Office Building on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
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