Posted November 3, 2023 at 2:06pm
A K-9 costume parade, members on two wheels, and the first full week of Mike Johnson serving as speaker highlighted a Halloween week on Capitol Hill, and CQ Roll Call photojournalists were there to capture all of the autumn activity.
Democratic Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost of Florida rides a Lime bicycle up to the House steps for the last votes of the week on Friday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Former Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski and fellow Maryland Democrat, Sen. Ben Cardin, talk in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Thursday during a Senate Finance hearing for Martin O’Malley, nominee to be commissioner of the Social Security Administration. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Ranking member Sen. Lindsey Graham, left, and Chairman Sen. Richard J. Durbin talk before the start of a Senate Judiciary Committee business meeting in the Hart Senate Office Building on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Workers install scaffolding on the Capitol’s House side on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Speaker Mike Johnson, center, is escorted by, from left, Sens. Ron Johnson, Ted Budd and Rick Scot through the Capitol’s Rotunda on Wednesday to attend the Senate Republicans’ luncheon. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah uses a bullhorn in the Hart Senate Office Building on Tuesday to emcee the “Bipawtisan Howl-o-ween Pawrade.” (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Democratic Sen. Laphonza Butler of California listens to FBI Director Christopher Wray testify during the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Tuesday. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and National Counterterrorism Center Director Christine Abizaid also testified. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)