Sneakers and robots crept around Capitol Hill this week as Congress worked before leaving town for a two-week Independence Day recess. CQ Roll Call photojournalists captured all the action.
A worker looks down from scaffolding on the Capitol’s west front on Wednesday as the building’s exterior preservation project continues. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Clockwise from bottom: Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., Reps. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., Morgan McGarvey, D-Ky., Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, George Santos, R-N.Y., Lori Chavez-DeRemer, R-Ore., and Melanie Stansbury, D-N.M., show off their sneakers in the Capitol on Wednesday in observance of the first-ever Congressional Sneaker Day. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell prepares to testify Thursday at a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)A staffer shows miniatures of the Capitol campus to a tour group on Thursday in the Capitol Crypt. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., chairwoman of the House Oversight Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology and Government Innovation, and staffers watch a demonstration of a Ghost Robotics Vision 60 Q-UGV robot on Thursday before the start of a hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India addresses a joint meeting of Congress in the House chamber on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)