Photos of the week | March 7-13, 2025 - Roll Call

It was another dramatic week in Congress, featuring cowboy hats, shamrocks, bubbles, shutdown drama and Democrats in retreat — their annual policy and strategy retreat, that is. CQ Roll Call photojournalists were there to capture the action.

Workers break up pavement to remove Black Lives Matter Plaza on 16th Street Northwest in Washington on Monday. Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., introduced legislation that threatened to withhold federal funding to the District of Columbia unless the words on the plaza were removed. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Vice President JD Vance arrives for a House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Tuesday. House Republicans were were trying to pass a continuing resolution to fund the government through September and avert a shutdown. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)