Cherry blossoms, rainbows, Oliver Stone, tariffs and the Senate GOP budget plan highlighted the week in Washington. CQ Roll Call photojournalists were there to capture the action.
Mallard ducks float among fallen cherry blossom petals in the Tidal Basin on Monday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Members of the Sisters of Life view cherry blossoms at the Tidal Basin on Monday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
A partial rainbow appears over Washington as storms begin to move through the area on Monday evening. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan Caine, nominee to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrives for his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., holds 4-month-old James Baehr Jr. as his father, Marine Corps Lt. Col. James Baehr, nominee to be general counsel of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and mother, Jasmine Skye Baehr, look on during a Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee confirmation hearing on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., conducts a news conference in the Capitol on Tuesday. Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., left, and Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., also appear. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Images of John Barnett, a former Boeing employee turned whistleblower, are held up behind Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg during a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing on Wednesday. Barnett, who died by suicide in 2024, was a quality inspector who alleged declining production standards at the company. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Planned Parenthood supporters demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court as the justices heard oral arguments in the case of Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., holds his weekly news conference in the Capitol on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., gestures to photographers as he arrives to attend a Senate Republicans lunch meeting on tariffs with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in the Capitol on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Sens. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., and Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., greet Marine Corps Gen. Michael E. Langley, commander of U.S. Africa Command, before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the defense authorization request on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Former Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., nominee to be ambassador to China, arrives for his confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Clockwise from bottom left, Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., prepare for a news conference in the Capitol to voice opposition to Senate Republicans’ budget resolution on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
