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Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., speaks to reporters on the steps of the Capitol after President Donald Trump selected him to replace Kristi Noem as secretary of Homeland Security on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | February 27-March 5, 2026

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted March 6, 2026 at 10:23am

Capitol Lens | Photo stop

By Bill Clark
Posted March 3, 2026 at 3:11pm
Connor Hellebuyck, right, and other members of the Olympic gold medal-winning U.S. men's hockey team are recognized by President Donald Trump during the State of the Union address in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | February 20-26, 2026

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted February 27, 2026 at 10:41am

Capitol Lens | Pausing for paws

By Bill Clark
Posted February 25, 2026 at 5:21pm

Capitol Lens | Frog signal

By Bill Clark
Posted February 24, 2026 at 3:05pm

Capitol Lens | Strategic maneuver

By Bill Clark
Posted February 23, 2026 at 4:51pm
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick arrives for a Senate Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Subcommittee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | February 6-12, 2026

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted February 13, 2026 at 10:53am

Capitol Lens | A ‘Walk for Peace’

By Bill Clark
Posted February 11, 2026 at 1:27pm

Capitol Lens | Comforting hand

By Bill Clark
Posted February 10, 2026 at 3:26pm

Capitol Lens | Virtual deposition

By Bill Clark
Posted February 9, 2026 at 3:13pm
Demonstrators attend a rally outside The Washington Post offices in downtown Washington on Thursday, after about 300 newsroom employees were laid off. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | January 30-February 5, 2026

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted February 6, 2026 at 10:37am

Capitol Lens | Thaw, humbug!

By Bill Clark
Posted February 5, 2026 at 4:37pm

Capitol Lens | Remembering Rosa Parks

By Bill Clark
Posted February 4, 2026 at 1:47pm

Capitol Lens | Shutter speed

By Bill Clark
Posted February 3, 2026 at 4:15pm
Architect of the Capitol crews clear snow from the East Front of the Capitol building Sunday as Winter Storm Fern dumps snow and sleet on the Washington area.

Photos of the week | January 23-29, 2026

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted January 30, 2026 at 6:00am

Capitol Lens | That’s Risch

By Bill Clark
Posted January 28, 2026 at 4:08pm

Capitol Lens | Snow job

By Bill Clark
Posted January 27, 2026 at 3:15pm

Capitol Lens | Well sled

By Bill Clark
Posted January 26, 2026 at 5:09pm
A National Park Service ranger salutes at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial after the annual MLK Day observance ceremony on Monday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | January 16-22, 2026

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted January 23, 2026 at 9:50am

Capitol Lens | Just one Moore thing

By Bill Clark
Posted January 21, 2026 at 4:02pm

Capitol Lens | Eagle eye

By Bill Clark
Posted January 20, 2026 at 3:19pm
Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., cuts through a group of people standing outside the Senate Foreign Relations Committee room after a vote in the Senate chamber on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | January 9-15, 2026

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted January 16, 2026 at 6:00am

Capitol Lens | Danespotting

By Bill Clark
Posted January 15, 2026 at 2:55pm

Capitol Lens | Choral majority

By Bill Clark
Posted January 14, 2026 at 3:27pm, Updated January 16, 2026 at 11:06am
The fireworks show begins at midnight with the Washington Monument illuminated as a birthday candle on New Year’s Eve. The four-sided projection light show on the Washington Monument, plus fireworks, kicked off the 250th anniversary of the United States in 2026.

Photos of the week | January 1-8, 2026

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted January 9, 2026 at 12:41pm

Capitol Lens | Remembering the Giffords shooting

By Bill Clark and Chris Hale
Posted January 8, 2026 at 12:24pm

Capitol Lens | Winding up

By Bill Clark
Posted January 7, 2026 at 3:18pm

Capitol Lens | Back to storage

By Bill Clark
Posted January 6, 2026 at 4:07pm

Capitol Lens | Ready for takeoff

By Bill Clark
Posted January 5, 2026 at 3:39pm
The Washington Monument is seen at sunset on Sunday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | December 12-18, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted December 19, 2025 at 9:24am

Capitol Lens | Making Christmas music together

By Bill Clark
Posted December 16, 2025 at 7:30am
An artist sells prints of Donald Trump riding an elephant outside the Capital One Arena on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20. Cold temperatures forced the Inauguration to move indoors. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Roll Call’s 2025 feature photos of the year

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted December 16, 2025 at 6:00am
The top of the Washington Monument peaks above a fog bank over the Washington area at sunrise on Sunday morning.

Photos of the week | December 5-11, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted December 12, 2025 at 9:22am

Capitol Lens | Foggy top

By Bill Clark
Posted December 8, 2025 at 2:24pm
Metropolitan Police Chief Pamela Smith and Capitol Police Chief Michael Sullivan attend a news conference at the Department of Justice on Thursday to announce the arrest of Brian Cole Jr., who allegedly placed pipe bombs near the Republican and Democratic National Committee offices the night before Jan. 6, 2021. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | December 1-4, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted December 5, 2025 at 9:48am

Capitol Lens | Frosting over

By Bill Clark
Posted December 2, 2025 at 3:58pm
A tour group enters the Capitol Rotunda on Monday. After Congress voted last week to temporarily fund the government into January, the Capitol Visitor Center reopened and tours of the Capitol resumed. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | November 14-20, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted November 21, 2025 at 9:50am

Capitol Lens | Turkey wing

By Bill Clark
Posted November 20, 2025 at 3:10pm

Capitol Lens | Keeping watch

By Bill Clark
Posted November 18, 2025 at 3:43pm
The Capitol dome is lit on Wednesday night as the House prepared to pass the funding bill to end the partial government shutdown. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | November 7-13, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted November 14, 2025 at 10:14am
An Architect of the Capitol worker lowers the flag over the Capitol to half-staff on Tuesday in honor of former Vice President Dick Cheney, who died on Monday at age 84. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | October 31-November 6, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted November 7, 2025 at 8:55am

Capitol Lens | Under his eye

By Bill Clark
Posted November 5, 2025 at 3:28pm

Capitol Lens | Keeping watch

By Bill Clark
Posted November 4, 2025 at 4:20pm
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., speaks to reporters as he arrives in the Capitol on Thursday. Tillis canceled his Bipawtisan Howl-o-ween Dog Parade this week due to the government shutdown. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | October 24-30, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted October 31, 2025 at 10:29am
A sign stands at the entrance to the Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday. During the government shutdown, tours of the Capitol are officially on pause, except those led by members of Congress. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | October 17-23, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted October 24, 2025 at 9:27am
Protesters march down Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest for the “No Kings” demonstration in Washington on Saturday.

Capitol Lens | Chants, songs and signs at ‘No Kings’

By Bill Clark
Posted October 20, 2025 at 4:08pm
Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., and his English bulldog, Babydog, pose for photos during Babydog's 6th birthday party in the Hart Senate Office Building on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | October 10-16, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted October 17, 2025 at 9:46am

Capitol Lens | New York minute

By Bill Clark
Posted October 16, 2025 at 5:39pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., left, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., conclude a news conference in the Capitol's Statuary Hall on the third day of the government shutdown on Friday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | October 3-9, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted October 10, 2025 at 9:42am
From left, House Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain of Michigan, Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., hold a news conference outside the Capitol on Wednesday, largely blaming Democrats for the partial government shutdown. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | September 26-October 2, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted October 3, 2025 at 8:43am

Capitol Lens | On reflection

By Bill Clark
Posted September 30, 2025 at 5:05pm

Capitol Lens | Heavy mettle 

By Bill Clark
Posted September 23, 2025 at 2:07pm
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., conducts a news conference in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | September 12-18, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted September 19, 2025 at 9:10am

Capitol Lens | The Patriarch and the Speaker

By Bill Clark
Posted September 17, 2025 at 4:00pm
Robert Redford is pictured during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing in 2008, behind Rep. Louise Slaughter of New York.

Capitol Lens | The way he was

By Chris Hale, Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted September 16, 2025 at 4:27pm
Capitol Police stand guard outside the Capitol during the last House votes of the week on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | September 5-11, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted September 12, 2025 at 8:32am

Capitol Lens | DC United

By Bill Clark
Posted September 8, 2025 at 1:52pm
Members of the National Guard patrol during the ceremony at the National World War II Memorial to mark the 80th anniversary of V-J Day on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | September 2-4, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted September 5, 2025 at 1:02pm
Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-Calif., carries his suitcase down the House steps as the chamber left town early for August recess after the final vote of the week in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., also walks down the steps to the left.

Photos of the week | July 18-24, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted July 25, 2025 at 12:22pm

Capitol Lens | Sneakers of the House

By Bill Clark
Posted July 23, 2025 at 2:19pm

Capitol Lens | Getting the shaft

By Bill Clark
Posted July 21, 2025 at 4:59pm
Michigan Democratic Sens. Gary Peters and Elissa Slotkin talk with an aide dressed as a hot dog during a Wednesday reception they hosted in the Russell Building to celebrate National Hot Dog Day.

Photos of the week | July 11-17, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted July 18, 2025 at 12:29pm

Capitol Lens | Booker blocker

By Bill Clark
Posted July 16, 2025 at 4:48pm

Capitol Lens | Strike force

By Bill Clark
Posted July 15, 2025 at 2:26pm
American cyclist Greg LeMond accepts the Congressional Gold Medal from Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., during a ceremony to honor the Tour de France winner in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall on Wednesday. Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., left, and LeMond’s wife, Kathy, also appear. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | July 4-10, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted July 11, 2025 at 9:20am

Capitol Lens | Chrome Dome

By Bill Clark
Posted July 7, 2025 at 4:44pm

Capitol Lens | Bringing Fourth

By Bill Clark
Posted July 3, 2025 at 1:06pm

Capitol Lens | Fourth-coming

By Bill Clark
Posted July 1, 2025 at 2:31pm
Secretary of State Marco Rubio greets a staffer from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as he arrives in the Capitol on Thursday to brief senators on the Trump administration's strikes against Iran. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | June 20-26, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted June 27, 2025 at 10:41am

Capitol Lens | The masked ringer

By Bill Clark
Posted June 23, 2025 at 1:36pm
A girl makes a face for a photo as tanks roll down Constitution Avenue Northwest during the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary parade, which was also President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday, on June 14.

Photos of the week | June 13-19, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted June 20, 2025 at 9:13am
Fireworks light up the sky, the Washington Monument and the Potomac River at the conclusion of the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary celebration in Washington on Saturday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos from the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary parade

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted June 16, 2025 at 12:28pm
2025 Florida Watermelon Queen Reagan Hudson takes photos as staffers for Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., move Kodak the Bear to the Russell Senate Office Building on Wednesday. Marty the Moose and Kodak the Bear, ambassadors to the White Mountains, made their annual trek to Shaheen’s office for the “Experience New Hampshire” reception. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | June 6-12, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted June 13, 2025 at 8:11am
The WorldPride Parade travels down Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest on Saturday. Washington was the host city for this year‘s event.

Capitol Lens | Roll Pride

By Bill Clark
Posted June 9, 2025 at 3:36pm
Riders in the Women’s Elite Pro category compete in the Amazon Armed Forces Cycling Classic Capitol Cup on 3rd Street Northwest on Saturday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | May 30-June 5, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted June 6, 2025 at 9:17am
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., lays flowers at the Capital Jewish Museum to honor Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgrim on Thursday. The Israeli Embassy staffers were shot and killed outside of an event at the museum on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | May 16-22, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted May 23, 2025 at 11:24am
Rep. Randy Weber, R-Texas, holds up his “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill” binder during the House Energy and Commerce Committee markup of the budget reconciliation legislation in the Rayburn office building on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | May 9-15, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted May 16, 2025 at 11:00am

Capitol Lens | Speaker mode

By Bill Clark
Posted May 15, 2025 at 4:32pm

Capitol Lens | Running time

By Bill Clark
Posted May 14, 2025 at 3:57pm
House Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman, R-Ark., listens as ranking member Jared Huffman, D-Calif., speaks with the aid of a “wreck-onciliation” poster during a markup of budget reconciliation legislation on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | May 2-May 8, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted May 9, 2025 at 9:48am

Capitol Lens | Bessent’s 2 cents

By Bill Clark
Posted May 7, 2025 at 2:51pm

Capitol Lens | Gulf friction

By Bill Clark
Posted May 6, 2025 at 4:54pm
Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, grabs one last puff of his cigar as he prepares the enter the Capitol for the last votes of the week on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | April 25-May 1, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted May 2, 2025 at 7:41am

Capitol Lens | ‘The tall and the short’

By Bill Clark
Posted April 30, 2025 at 2:25pm

Capitol Lens | George Watch-ington

By Bill Clark
Posted April 29, 2025 at 4:16pm
Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., left, high-fives Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., as he arrives for a vote in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | April 4-10, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted April 11, 2025 at 9:16am

Capitol Lens | Frames of mind

By Bill Clark
Posted April 10, 2025 at 5:03pm

Capitol Lens | Chomp and circumstance

By Bill Clark
Posted April 8, 2025 at 11:55am
Film director Oliver Stone arrives to testify to the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets hearing on the JFK files in the Capitol Visitor Center on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | March 28-April 3, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted April 4, 2025 at 10:12am

Capitol Lens | Rainbow connection

By Bill Clark
Posted April 1, 2025 at 3:54pm
Visitors sit on the wall of the Tidal Basin while viewing cherry blossoms on Monday.

Capitol Lens | A bloom with a view

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted March 31, 2025 at 5:29pm
Corinna Delgado of DC News Now interviews “Teddy Roosevelt,” one of the Washington Nationals’ “Racing Presidents” mascots, during media preview day at Nationals Park on March 21. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | March 21-27, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted March 28, 2025 at 10:33am

Capitol Lens | Bloomsday

By Bill Clark
Posted March 26, 2025 at 4:22pm

Capitol Lens | Mixed Signal

By Bill Clark
Posted March 25, 2025 at 4:54pm
Dayana Bergman, a military spouse, wipes tears after speaking during a town hall at Woodlawn High School in Woodlawn, Md., on Thursday with Sens. Angela Alsobrooks and Chris Van Hollen, Reps. Kweisi Mfume and John “Johnny O” Olszewski Jr., and Councilman Pat Young.

Photos of the week | March 17-21, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted March 21, 2025 at 2:35pm
Staffers Scott Merrick, left, and Kevin Travaline move Kodak the Bear and Marty the Moose into the lobby of Sen. Jeanne Shaheen’s office in the Hart Senate Office Building on June 14, 2016.

Capitol Lens | You’re gonna carry that weight

By Bill Clark
Posted March 19, 2025 at 6:30am
Bubbles fly by as Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., speaks at a rally on the West Front of the Capitol on Monday. Several activists used bubble guns to blow bubbles over the rally. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | March 7-13, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted March 14, 2025 at 9:03am
Healthcare workers wait between appointments at a COVID-19 drive-thru testing facility at George Washington University on May 5, 2020.

A look back at the coronavirus lockdown

By Jessica Wehrman and Bill Clark
Posted March 13, 2025 at 6:00am

Focus on ‘The Eyes of History’

By Chris Hale, Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted March 10, 2025 at 2:18pm
Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, wears American flag shoes while doing a TV interview in the Capitol's Statuary Hall before President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | February 28-March 6, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted March 7, 2025 at 9:09am