The new political year started with a firehose of news and events on Capitol Hill. New members were sworn in, Mike Johnson held on to his speakership, Republican Sen. John Thune moved into the majority leader's office, electoral votes were counted without the Capitol being stormed, and the nation said farewell to former President Jimmy Carter. CQ Roll Call photojournalists present the best photos of the 119th Congress so far. Roddy Flynn, chief of staff for incoming Rep. Sarah McBride, D-Del., helps to affix her member’s pin to her lapel in the Capitol Rotunda on Jan. 3, before she was sworn in to Congress later in the day. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) A sign for Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., is installed on his new office door in the Capitol on Jan. 3. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) August, the son of Sen. Andy Kim, D-N.J., arrives for his father’s ceremonial swearing-in with Vice President Kamala Harris in the Old Senate Chamber on Jan. 3. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., arrives in the House chamber of after winning the speakership for the 119th Congress on Jan. 3. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) Magnus, a Newfoundland, plays during a snow storm in Stanton Park on Capitol Hill on Monday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) Senate pages arrive in the House chamber with the Electoral College ballot boxes for the joint session of Congress to count the electoral votes on Monday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) Vice President Kamala Harris presides over the joint session of Congress to count the electoral votes, as Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., looks on in the House chamber on Monday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) The casket of the late Jimmy Cater, the 39th president of the United States, arrives to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) The casket of former President Jimmy Carter sits in the Capitol Rotunda for his lying in state ceremony on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) Daughter Amy Carter wipes away tears during former President Jimmy Carter’s lying in state ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) Capitol Police officers wait to open the gates to the general public to enter the Capitol Visitor Center for the viewing of former President Jimmy Carter lying in state on Tuesday night. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) President-elect Donald Trump and former first lady Melania Trump pay respect to former President Jimmy Carter in the Capitol Rotunda on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) The flag-draped casket of former President Jimmy Carter is carried by a joint services military honor guard down the steps of the Capitol on Thursday morning. The casket was then carried by hearse to a state funeral at Washington National Cathedral. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
