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DC area residents celebrate with champagne on Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington after Joe Biden was projected to win the 2020 election on Saturday.

Photos of the day: DC celebrates Biden win

By Tom Williams
Posted November 9, 2020 at 11:33am
Colorado election results are displayed on a screen on election night in Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington.

Congressional Hits and Misses: Election week edition

By Thomas McKinless
Posted November 6, 2020 at 4:03pm
A woman walks by a mural that reads “vote” in Philadelphia on Monday.

Photos of the week: Election 2020 edition

By Tom Williams, Caroline Brehman and Bill Clark
Posted November 6, 2020 at 8:44am
Caution tape appears at a sidewalk construction site on Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, near the Capitol in May 2021.

Take it from top Hill staffers: Congress doesn’t function as it should

Obama supporters celebrate in the streets of Washington's Chinatown in the early morning hours of Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008, after Barack Obama's historic election as President of the United States Tuesday night.

Photo of the Day: Throwback Thursday to Nov. 5, 2008

By Bill Clark
Posted November 5, 2020 at 3:40pm
Moving out is a biennial tradition in the House, complete with boxes, bubble wrap and hours of sorting through official papers. Above, trash piles up in the Rayburn House Office Building two years ago as departing members cleared out their offices.

Bring in the moving boxes: Congress is already packing up

By Erin Bacon
Posted November 5, 2020 at 6:00am
A worker power washes the colonnade at Union Station on Wednesday morning. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photo of the day: Post-election cleanse

By Bill Clark
Posted November 4, 2020 at 4:13pm

Mondaire Jones to become the first openly gay, Black member of Congress

By Thomas McKinless
Posted November 4, 2020 at 11:35am

Former Yoho staffer Kat Cammack elected to Florida’s 3rd district

By Thomas McKinless
Posted November 3, 2020 at 8:29pm
Songs set in Statuary Hall are few and far between, but Nada Surf delivered exactly that, inspired by a visit in 2013. Lead singer and songwriter Matthew Caws, right, got a private tour from fan and congressional staffer David Schnittger, then deputy chief of staff to Speaker John A. Boehner.

Nada Surf wrote a ‘Song for Congress’ set in Statuary Hall

By Chris Hale
Posted November 3, 2020 at 6:30am
UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 31: Jaime Harrison, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from South Carolina, poses with a painting of himself by the artist known as “Joey Withinarts” during Harrison’s drive-in rally in Anderson, S.C., on Saturday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photo of the day: The art of campaigning

By Tom Williams
Posted November 2, 2020 at 12:14pm
Democratic Senate candidates Jon Ossoff, left, and Rev. Raphael Warnock, center, attend a drive-in rally with Muscogee County Democrats at the Civic Center in Columbus, Ga., on Thursday. Rep. Sanford Bishop, D-Ga., appears at right.

Photos of the week ending Oct. 30, 2020

By Caroline Brehman, Tom Williams and Bill Clark
Posted October 30, 2020 at 12:15pm
UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 28: A voter casts a ballot in a drop box outside the Union Market Super Vote Center during early voting in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, October 28, 2020. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

A weekend all-nighter, fake tweets and a Grassley impression: Congressional Hits and Misses

By Thomas McKinless
Posted October 30, 2020 at 11:35am
In the final days of Sen. Harry ReidÕs final election campaign, photojournalists take photos of a campaign worker in the ÒChickenAngle" suit before the start of the ÒKnock or Treat" Halloween canvassing of a neighborhood in Henderson, Nev. on Oct. 31, 2010. Sen. Reid's campaign used the chicken suit to illustrate how his Republican challenger Sharron Angle was avoiding the media during her campaign. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photo of the day: Throwback Thursday

By Bill Clark
Posted October 29, 2020 at 1:54pm
Rep. Alex X. Mooney, who represents West Virginia’s 2nd District, keeps his congressional intern ID badge in his desk drawer as a memento.

Don’t throw out your intern ID badge. You may want it when you’re in Congress

By Eleanor Van Buren
Posted October 29, 2020 at 6:30am
During the anthrax attacks of 2001, Oregon Rep. Peter A. DeFazio, center, visits the makeshift East Front office of New York Rep. Gary L. Ackerman, here using the phone, in October 2001. Ackerman’s Rayburn office was closed for anthrax testing.

Pathogens, nose swabs and flip phones: What work was like during anthrax

By Chris Cioffi
Posted October 29, 2020 at 6:00am
A woman wears a face mask as she walks past a mural featuring posters of President Donald Trump with his face blacked out at Union Market on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photo of the day: Trump on display, 6 days before election

By Bill Clark
Posted October 28, 2020 at 4:02pm
A sign outside of the Capital One Arena urges residents to vote early before the start of the first day of early voting in Washington on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020. Capital One Arena and National Park were opened as ÒSuper Vote CentersÓ as part of the The District of Columbia Board of ElectionsÕ ÒVote Safe DCÓ campaign. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the day: DC kicks off ‘super’ early voting

By Bill Clark, Tom Williams and Caroline Brehman
Posted October 27, 2020 at 3:36pm
Mark Fischer helps set up an early voting center in the PNC Diamond Club at Nationals Park on Monday.

Baseball fans will have to settle for early voting at Nationals Park

By Jason Dick
Posted October 27, 2020 at 6:30am
U.S. Park Police officers stop zombies from crossing the street to the Lincoln Memorial at dawn on Monday, Oct. 26, 2010. The zombies, who had planned to swarm the Lincoln Memorial, were part of a publicity campaign staged in major cities around the world for AMC's "The Walking Dead," TV series which premiered on Oct. 31, 2010. (Bill Clark/Roll Call)

Photo of the day: Throwback on a monster of a Monday

By Bill Clark
Posted October 26, 2020 at 7:21pm
UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 22: Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, takes a cell phone video of the empty Democratic Senators’ seats on the Senate Judiciary Committee as they boycott the committee vote on Amy Coney Barrett to serve as an associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States during a Senate Judiciary Committee Executive Business meeting in Washington on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. (Pool photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)

Political stunts, difficult masks and AOC Among Us: Congressional Hits and Misses

By Thomas McKinless
Posted October 23, 2020 at 1:36pm