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Capitol Lens | Photo finish

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted March 9, 2026 at 3:54pm
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 | Raising Caine

By Tom Williams
Posted March 4, 2026 at 7:47pm

Capitol Lens | Blue horizons

By Tom Williams
Posted March 2, 2026 at 4:56pm
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
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
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 | Chip off the snow block

By Tom Williams
Posted February 2, 2026 at 4:41pm
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
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
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

Honor guard

By Tom Williams
Posted January 12, 2026 at 2:55pm, Updated at 3:42pm
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
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 | Johns in bronze

By Tom Williams
Posted December 17, 2025 at 3:46pm
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 | The Vex-orcist

By Tom Williams
Posted December 11, 2025 at 4:05pm, Updated at 5:46pm

Bringing up baby

By Tom Williams
Posted December 10, 2025 at 2:47pm
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 | Under siege

By Tom Williams
Posted December 4, 2025 at 4:18pm

Capitol Lens | Seeing eye to Nye

By Tom Williams
Posted December 3, 2025 at 3:45pm

Capitol Lens | Red-hot holiday

By Tom Williams
Posted December 1, 2025 at 5:57pm
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 | Royal visit

By Tom Williams
Posted November 19, 2025 at 3:04pm

Capitol Lens | Rubble soul

By Tom Williams
Posted November 17, 2025 at 3:15pm
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 | PorchFest Patrol

By Tom Williams
Posted November 3, 2025 at 4:36pm
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

Capitol Lens | Center of attention

By Tom Williams
Posted October 30, 2025 at 3:14pm
A spectator at Peace Circle near the Capitol holds up a sign encouraging runners during the 50th Marine Corps Marathon on Sunday.

Capitol Lens | Marathon brawn

By Tom Williams
Posted October 27, 2025 at 3:20pm
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

Capitol Lens | Track meet

By Tom Williams
Posted October 23, 2025 at 4:40pm

Capitol Lens | Cuban sandwich

By Tom Williams
Posted October 22, 2025 at 5:13pm

Capitol Lens | White House down

By Tom Williams
Posted October 21, 2025 at 4:42pm
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
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

Capitol Lens | Bare bones

By Tom Williams
Posted October 8, 2025 at 12:18pm

Capitol Lens | Man in the mirror

By Tom Williams
Posted October 7, 2025 at 4:49pm
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 | Mark his words 

By Tom Williams
Posted October 1, 2025 at 3:11pm

Capitol Lens | Protesting Netanyahu

By Tom Williams
Posted September 29, 2025 at 3:23pm
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
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 Lens | Capitol vigil

By Tom Williams
Posted September 15, 2025 at 7:37pm
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 | On Guard

By Tom Williams
Posted September 11, 2025 at 3:28pm
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

Capitol Lens | Here comes McBride

By Tom Williams
Posted September 4, 2025 at 3:32pm

Capitol Lens | Generations

By Tom Williams
Posted September 2, 2025 at 3:36pm

Capitol Lens | Sunflower power

By Tom Williams
Posted August 5, 2025 at 3:51pm

Capitol Lens | The eye rolls have it

By Tom Williams
Posted July 29, 2025 at 4:36pm

Capitol Lens | Barbie Epstein play set

By Tom Williams
Posted July 28, 2025 at 4:33pm
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
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 | Butler revisited

By Tom Williams
Posted July 14, 2025 at 4:51pm
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 | Tour de force

By Tom Williams
Posted July 9, 2025 at 3:04pm
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
Montana Sen. Tim Sheehy greets World War II Army Ranger veteran Sgt. Joseph J. Drake during a Congressional Gold Medal on Thursday.

Capitol Lens | Honoring Rangers

By Tom Williams
Posted June 26, 2025 at 4:59pm
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

Capitol Lens | Laugh track

By Tom Williams
Posted June 10, 2025 at 4:28pm
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

Capitol Lens | Grave sight

By Tom Williams
Posted June 5, 2025 at 5:07pm

Capitol Lens | Red Line

By Tom Williams
Posted June 4, 2025 at 10:12pm

Capitol Lens | ‘Peanut’ plaza

By Tom Williams
Posted June 2, 2025 at 5:25pm

Capitol Lens | Waiting in the wings

By Tom Williams
Posted May 29, 2025 at 11:39am
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

Capitol Lens | Hearing the sad news

By Tom Williams
Posted May 21, 2025 at 3:30pm

Capitol Lens | Putting the ‘shh’ in Schumer

By Tom Williams
Posted May 20, 2025 at 4:38pm

Capitol Lens | Night moves

By Tom Williams
Posted May 19, 2025 at 4:55pm
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 | Markup interuptus

By Tom Williams
Posted May 13, 2025 at 4:01pm

Capitol Lens | A K-9 shrine

By Tom Williams
Posted May 12, 2025 at 3:20pm
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 | Cutting back

By Tom Williams
Posted May 5, 2025 at 2:46pm
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 | Eagles eyed

By Tom Williams
Posted April 28, 2025 at 6:46pm

Capitol Lens | Mr. Smith goes to the Easter Egg Roll

By Tom Williams
Posted April 21, 2025 at 3:08pm
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 | HHS checkup

By Tom Williams
Posted April 9, 2025 at 5:47pm
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
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 | Teddy talks

By Tom Williams
Posted March 24, 2025 at 1:33pm
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
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

Capitol Lens | What matters

By Tom Williams
Posted March 10, 2025 at 3:32pm

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
Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wis., parks his Harley Davidson motorcycle as he arrives for a vote in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week | February 21-27, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted February 28, 2025 at 11:11am
Staffers carry pizza boxes from We, The Pizza into the Capitol for the Senate's late-night vote-a-rama on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week ending February 21, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted February 21, 2025 at 10:48am
Mitch McConnell and his wife, Elaine Chao, address the Election Night crowd in Louisville, Ky., on Nov. 4, 2014, after the Kentucky Republican defeated Democratic challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes.

Capitol Lens | A Mitch in time

By Bill Clark, Tom Williams and Chris Hale
Posted February 20, 2025 at 3:04pm

Capitol Lens | Wake-up call

By Tom Williams
Posted February 18, 2025 at 1:31pm
Communications director Victoria Bonney arranges New Jersey-themed valentines in the office of Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week ending February 14, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted February 14, 2025 at 9:56am

Capitol Lens | Hungry hearts

By Tom Williams
Posted February 12, 2025 at 2:29pm
Wreckage from American Airlines flight 5342 is pulled from the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan National Airport on Monday. The plane collided with a U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter on Jan. 29, killing 67 people. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week ending February 7, 2025

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted February 7, 2025 at 9:46am