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Photos of the week ending February 2, 2024

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, apologizes to families of children who were harmed via unsafe social media platforms during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday about big tech and online child sexual exploitation.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, apologizes to families of children who were harmed via unsafe social media platforms during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday about big tech and online child sexual exploitation. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted February 2, 2024 at 2:24pm

Roll Call’s photojournalists focused their lenses this week on the National Prayer Breakfast, tech CEOs getting some face time with senators and more.

A skateboarder rolls through the portico walkway of Washington’s Union Station on Monday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Sam Chapman, left, and Jaime Puerta hold pictures of their sons — Sammy Chapman and Daniel Puerta-Johnson, who died of fentanyl poisoning from pills purchased on Snapchat — during the Senate Judiciary hearing on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators block an intersection near the Capitol as President Joe Biden attends the National Prayer Breakfast in the Capitol on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Biden, right, and Speaker Mike Johnson shake hands in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall on Tuesday after the National Prayer Breakfast. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
From left, former Obama administration Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and former Trump administration Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrive in the Cannon Office Building on Tuesday to testify at a House select China committee hearing. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

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