Photos of the week | December 5-11, 2025 - Roll Call

While rock star Gene Simmons was on the Hill to testify this week, it’s almost time to KISS this year goodbye as Congress has one more week to get its work done before a scheduled holiday recess. Here are the images captured by CQ Roll Call photojournalists this week.

KISS bassist and co-lead singer Gene Simmons takes his seat at the witness table for a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property hearing on radio royalties for artists in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Tuesday.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., leaves the Senate floor in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)