The House returned to Washington for a brief bit of work this week before heading out for another recess. Two new members were sworn in, and the clouds returned to the sculpture in the Hart atrium. Here are photographs of the action captured by CQ Roll Call photojournalists this week. Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., talks with reporters in the Capitol as Congress wraps up its short week back in Washington on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) Rep. James E. Clyburn, D-S.C., leaves the Capitol with a copy of the Roll Call print edition after the final vote of the week on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer speaks with members after a meeting of the Republican Study Committee in the Capitol on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) Workers prepare the newly refurbished clouds for installation to complete Alexander Calder's "Mountains and Clouds" sculpture in the Hart Senate Office Building atrium on Wednesday. The clouds were lowered in 2014 after a safety study. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) Rep. Max Miller, R-Ohio, speaks to a reporter after votes in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) Rep. Everton Blair, D-Ga., mugs for the cameras before his ceremonial swearing-in in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., left, and House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., arrive for a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) A sign on a Senate Appropriations Committee office door cautions staffers about wet glue as Architect of the Capitol workers install new carpeting on Monday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) A shelf cloud looms over the Air Force Memorial in Arlington, Va., as a thunderstorm moved through the Washington area on Sunday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
