Speaker Mike Johnson kept his job, a new statue was installed, members played chess, “RuPaul’s Drag Race” visited Washington and victims of the Holocaust were remembered — all of which highlighted this week at the Capitol. CQ Roll Call photojournalists were there to capture the action.
Plastique Tiara, a cast member on “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars,” takes a selfie by the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial on the west side of the Capitol as a tour bus passes by on Monday. The cast of the show was in Washington for their press tour. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Thomas Massie, R-Ky., talk with the media after a meeting with Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., in the Capitol on Monday. Greene filed a motion to oust Johnson, which was unsuccessful this week. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., leaves a news conference after the House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Attendees hold up photos of victims of the Holocaust during the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Annual Days of Remembrance ceremony in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)A Southwest Airlines jet flies past the Capitol dome as it comes in for a landing at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)From right, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, conduct a news conference outside the Capitol on Wednesday to introduce a bill that would require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., center, reacts as Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, left, makes a move against grandmaster chess player Maurice Ashley, right, during the bipartisan Congressional Chess Tournament in the Russell Senate Office Building on Wednesday. Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., is seated next to Cruz. The tournament was held in partnership with the St. Louis Chess Club. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, R-Ark., speaks during the unveiling ceremony for the Daisy Bates statue in Statuary Hall on Wednesday. Bates was a Civil Rights leader who was influential in the initiative to integrate Arkansas schools. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., listens to testimony from acting Labor Secretary Julie Su during a Senate Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the fiscal 2025 budget request for the Department of Labor on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
