A speaker ousted, a new senator and a new Supreme Court term dominated the Hill this week. Roll Call photojournalists were there to capture the action.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., leaves the House Democrats’ caucus meeting on the motion to vacate in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Reps. Eli Crane, R-Ariz., center, and Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., left, arrive for a procedural vote on the motion to oust the speaker on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Sen. Laphonza Butler, D-Calif., raises her right hand as Vice President Kamala Harris performs a ceremonial swearing-in at the Capitol on Tuesday. Holding the Bible is Butler’s wife, Neneki Lee. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., leaves the House chamber in the Capitol after his colleagues voted to remove him as speaker on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., arrives for a House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Tuesday evening after the speaker was ousted. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)A staffer takes a photo of the Washington Post front page at the entrance to the speaker’s office suite in the Capitol on Wednesday morning. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Flowers sit at Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s seat on Wednesday during the first Senate Judiciary Committee hearing since the senator died. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Speaker pro tempore Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., center, and Rep. French Hill, R-Ark., right, leave the Capitol on Wednesday, the day after McCarthy was ousted. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)