Capitol Lens | Muggy for the cameras - Roll Call

Heard on the Hill

Capitol Lens | Muggy for the cameras

Fourth of July fireworks light up the sky over the National Mall in Washington on Thursday. — Fourth of July fireworks light up the sky over the National Mall in Washington on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams

Posted July 8, 2024 at 2:19pm

It was a hot and humid Independence Day in the Washington area. But that didn’t stop folks from enjoying the fireworks and festivities. Nor did it deter politics, as candidates for Senate and the open House seat in Virginia’s 10th District canvassed voters amid the heat.

Here are a few photos from the Fourth of July weekend in the DMV, and one from DEN.

Suhas Subramanyam, Democratic candidate for the open U.S. House seat in Virginia’s 10th District, greets the crowd at the Leesburg Independence Day Parade on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Mike Clancy, the Republican nominee for the open House seat in Virginia’s 10th District, walks in the Leesburg parade on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Hung Cao, GOP nominee in Virginia for the U.S. Senate, waves to parade spectators in Leesburg on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Later, on Saturday, passengers at Denver International Airport wait to board their delayed flights. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Recent Stories

House Defense Appropriations Chairman Ken Calvert, R-Calif., says lawmakers “have time to deal with” the $1.95 billion funding question — but he still needs answers from the Navy about the request.

Lawmakers postpone decision on Virginia-class submarine money

House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken ignored "countless requests for his testimony."

House Foreign Affairs votes to recommend holding Blinken in contempt

Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford is pictured in the Capitol during votes on July 31. Lankford on Tuesday blocked a resolution expressing a sense of the Senate that every patient should have the right to emergency health care, including abortion, regardless of where they live, saying that “there is no state in America where a woman faces prosecution for having an abortion.”

Filibuster’s future, emergency abortions fuel Senate debate

Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event on food security in Smithton, Pa., on Monday. He was in Georgia on Tuesday.

‘Take their factories’: Trump vows to snatch jobs from other countries

Senate Judiciary Chair Richard J. Durbin says Congress will have to wield its appropriations, oversight and legislative power if faced with a corrupt presidency.

Senate Democrats bash Supreme Court’s Trump immunity ruling

A statue of country music legend Johnny Cash is unveiled during a ceremony in Emancipation Hall on Tuesday.

‘Hello, I’m Johnny Cash’: Statue of the ‘Man in Black’ unveiled at the Capitol