This week Congress returned from recess, baseball season opened, and intelligence officials were on the hot seat over the Signal group chat leak. CQ Roll Call photojournalists were there to capture the action.
Reps. Jason Smith, R-Mo., center; Beth Van Duyne, R-Texas; and Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., leave the Capitol Hill Club after a House Republican Conference meeting on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Senate Intelligence Vice Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., questions witnesses as Chairman Tom Cotton, R-Ark., listens during the Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
From left, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., make their way to a news conference in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., leaves Senate Democrats’ lunch in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Subcommittee Chair Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks as Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, D-Mass., left, looks on during a House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency hearing on NPR and PBS in the Capitol Visitor Center on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., walks to the podium to speak at a rally outside the Capitol on Wednesday. The rally was held to oppose tax breaks for billionaires. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)From left, FBI Director Kash Patel, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe testify at the House Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats on Wednesday. The witnesses fielded questions about a reported group chat on the Signal app that accidentally included a journalist, in which top administration officials discussed a military strike against Houthis in Yemen. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., leaves the Capitol after the last votes of the week on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
