Heard On The Hill · 117th Congress
A kinder, gentler capitalism? These lawmakers think it can work
</p> Friday’s announcement provided few concrete policy goals for the caucus.
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</p> Friday’s announcement provided few concrete policy goals for the caucus.
</p> Here’s the week in photos as seen by CQ Roll Call’s photojournalists:</p> A jogger runs through sprinklers on the National Mall as temperatures in Washington surpassed 90 degrees on Monday.
(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) It wasn’t Willie Nelson, or that ’90s twins group Nelson, or even NASA administrator Bill Nelson. But it was former Sen.
(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) NBC producer Frank Thorp takes a photo from the second floor of the Hart Senate Office Building while waiting for Senate Democrats to hold their weekly press conference on Tuesday
Anyone who’s seen “Bill Nye the Science Guy” — everyone who attended grade school in the mid-’90s, and any student since who had their science teacher call in sick — knows from its theme song that “inertia
</p> The pandemic put a stop to it for a while.
</p> Q: Some lawmakers just completely avoid the press.</p> A: Yeah, I’ve noticed. [Laughs.]</p> Q: You’re pretty much the exact opposite.</p> A: I pretty much am, yeah.
</p> National Guard troops make their way to buses outside the D.C. Armory on Monday after ending their mission protecting the Capitol in Washington.
While the Senate couldn’t pass a Jan. 6 commission bill, Majority Leader Charles E.
</p> Reducing the stigma can only do so much if people can’t find a psychiatrist or social worker.</p> “I want us to hurry up and get there,” she says.
</p> CQ Roll Call’s photojournalists bring you the best images of the week:</p> A U.S. Park Police officer on horseback crosses 7th Street Northwest near the National Mall in Washington on Monday.
Steve Cohen whipped out a “you can’t handle the truth” meme in response to Republican opposition to the House’s bipartisan Jan. 6 commission bill that faces an uncertain future in the Senate.
Assuming a few more Democrats signed on, the bill could overcome a filibuster easily, but finding floor time for the measure while Democrats have bigger priorities, like a jobs bill, voting overhaul, and
(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., gestures as he speaks with a reporter before the start of the Senate Republican weekly lunch in the Russell Senate Office Building on Tuesday.
</p> The Washington area began buzzing this weekend with the loosening of mask restrictions for the vaccinated — and from the literal emergence of a cicada brood 17 years in the making.
</p> Here’s a look at the week as captured by CQ Roll Call’s photojournalists:</p> Louisiana Gov.
</p> “That’s going to be used in ads against you, Cory,” Cruz shot back.
</p> That was enough to keep host Jason Dick pretty busy for the past three years.
(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) A squirrel enjoys a Snickers candy bar in Upper Senate Park at lunchtime on Wednesday.
</p> Almost, but not quite.