Congress has left the building — the 2025 legislative session is a wrap. Here are the images of the last week before the holiday recess captured by CQ Roll Call photojournalists.
Dolls depicting President Donald Trump and The Grinch are part of the Christmas display at the “Barbie Pond on Avenue Q,” on Q Street Northwest in Washington on Monday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., checks his watch as he arrives with Deputy Whip Guy Reschenthaler, R-Pa., for the House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth arrives in the Capitol on Tuesday for a briefing with senators on the military’s boat strikes in the Caribbean Sea. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Members of the Virginia delegation, congressional leaders, family members and Gov. Glenn Youngkin, R-Va., watch during the unveiling ceremony for the Barbara Rose Johns statue in the Capitol on Tuesday. In 1951, Johns led a protest against segregation and poor conditions at her Farmville, Va., school, which led to desegregation. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Former special counsel John L. “Jack” Smith arrives for a closed-door deposition with members of the House Judiciary Committee to discuss the prosecutions of President Donald Trump in the Rayburn House Office Building on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, left, and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, talk as they arrive for a vote in the Capitol on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., remarks on President Donald Trump’s record during a news conference in the Capitol on Wednesday. Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., right, Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., also appear. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., speaks to reporters after a vote in the Capitol on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
