The presidential inauguration moved indoors, Cabinet confirmation hearings kept lawmakers busy and Babydog was sighted this week on Capitol Hill. CQ Roll Call photojournalists were there to capture the action.
Guests watch the inauguration of President Donald Trump at Union Pub on Capitol Hill on Monday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)President Donald Trump reviews the troops, starting with the U.S. Army Band, in the Capitol after being sworn in on Monday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., poses with the Stewarts Creek High School marching band from Smyrna, Tenn., in the Hart Senate Office Building on Tuesday. The band played in Trump’s inauguration parade at Capital One Arena on Monday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)A Capitol worker adds the name of Jon Husted, R-Ohio, to a Senate directory board in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Tuesday. The former lieutenant governor of Ohio was sworn in by Vice President JD Vance later in the day. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., Trump’s nominee to be ambassador to the United Nations, greets Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Jim Risch, R-Idaho, at her confirmation hearing on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Sen. Jim Justice, R-W.Va., pets his English bulldog, Babydog, after Senate Republicans’ lunch in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)A congressional staffer sets up a poster on stage for Texas Republican Rep. Brian Babin’s news conference on the Birthright Citizenship Act in the Capitol Visitor Center on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Brooke Rollins, Trump’s nominee to be secretary of Agriculture, is greeted by Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., conducts his weekly news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center on Thursday. The sign shows a picture of Daniel Ball, a pardoned Jan. 6 defendant, who was arrested on gun charges. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., shakes hands with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., surrounded by Republican members of the Georgia delegation in the Capitol on Thursday after the bill signing ceremony for the immigration bill that would allow deportation of undocumented immigrants who commit a crime in the United States. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
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