Competing budget resolutions, more Cabinet confirmations, federal employee protests and a lost Super Bowl bet highlighted this Valentine’s Day week on Capitol Hill. CQ Roll Call photojournalists were there to capture the action.
Snow covers the Capitol grounds on Wednesday morning after a winter storm dumped 5 inches of snow overnight. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)A worker stocks eggs at a grocery store in Washington on Wednesday. Egg prices have soared as an outbreak of bird flu has caused supply shortages. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., chairwoman of the House Oversight and Govenment Reform Subommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency, arrives Wednesday for the panel’s first hearing in the Rayburn office building. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Senate Budget Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and ranking member Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., left, attend the markup of the fiscal 2025 budget resolution in Hart office building on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)After losing a Super Bowl bet, Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., wears a Philadelphia Eagles football jersey as he walks through the Senate subway in the Capitol on Wednesday. The Eagles defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl on Sunday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., arrives in the Capitol on Wednesday to vote on the nomination of Tulsi Gabbard to be director of national intelligence. McConnell cast the lone Republican “no” vote. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Rep. Brendan F. Boyle, D-Pa., ranking member of the House Budget Committee, speaks during the markup of the budget resolution in the Cannon office building on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, leaves the Capitol on Thursday after a meeting with Republican members of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on the issue of debanking. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
