Trump administration nominees swarmed the Capitol this week as Congress prepares to wrap up business for the year. CQ Roll Call photojournalists were there to capture the action.
U.S. Capitol Police process trans rights activists outside the Cannon House Office Building on Thursday. Chelsea Manning and other activists were arrested for protesting Republicans’ push to ban transgender women from using women’s bathrooms in the House. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Ronald Rowe, acting director of the U.S. Secret Service, listens to questions by Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., during the House Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump hearing titled “Secret Service Security Failures and the Attempts to Assassinate President-Elect Donald J. Trump” on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be U.N. ambassador, walks through the Senate side of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Pete Hegseth, Trump’s nominee to be Defense Secretary, walks from the Russell Senate Office Building via the Senate subway tunnel to his meeting with Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Former Texas congressman John Ratcliffe, center, Trump’s nominee for CIA director, leaves his meeting with Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., conducts a news conference at the RNC after the House Republican Conference meeting on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., (left) Trump’s nominee to be the next secretary of State, laughs as Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., jokingly asks what state he is from during their meeting in the Russell Senate Office Building on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)From left, Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, deputy Senate Democratic Conference secretary; Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., chair of outreach; Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., vice chair of the conference; Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., chair of the Steering and Policy Committee; Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.; Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., conference secretary; and Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., vice chair of the conference, pose for photos after the Senate Democrats’ leadership elections in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Pam Bondi, nominee to be attorney general, meets with incoming Senate Judiciary Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, in the Hart Senate Office Building on Monday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
