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Photos of the week ending January 19, 2024

A child helps build a snowman on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol as snow falls in the Washington area on Monday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
A child helps build a snowman on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol as snow falls in the Washington area on Monday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted January 19, 2024 at 10:22am

Capitol Hill experienced its first measurable snow in two years, and the first continuing resolution of 2024. CQ Roll Call photojournalists were on the scene to capture the action.

Kids sled down the hill on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol after 3-4 inches of snowfall across the metro area on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks during the press conference on immigration parole in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
From left, Reps. Michael R. Turner, R-Ohio, Mike Rogers, R-Ala., Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and Michael McCaul, R-Texas, address the media after their meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House about funding for Ukraine in the war with Russia and border security on Wednesday. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., also addressed the media after the meeting. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., walks up the House steps to participate in the bipartisan gathering of House members holding a candlelight vigil on the House steps of the U.S. Capitol with hostage families to commemorate 100 days since Hamas attacks on Israel on Wednesday. Jet contrails illuminated by the setting sun are seen in the background. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
A woman takes photos with her phone as Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and a bipartisan gathering of House members hold a candlelight vigil on the House steps of the U.S. Capitol with hostage families to commemorate 100 days since Hamas attacks on Israel on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Immigration activists hold #saveasylum signs at a news conference with House Democrats on border security negotiations outside the U.S. Capitol on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Secretary of State Antony Blinken makes his way to a closed door briefing with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the U.S. Capitol on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., right, exits the U.S. Capitol with his luggage after casting his vote for the continuing resolution on Thursday. Following passage in the Senate, the House passed the CR to avoid a partial government shutdown. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

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