Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., speaks to the media on the House steps of the Capitol after his motion to vacate the office of the speaker passed on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
A speaker ousted, a new senator and a new Supreme Court term dominated the Hill this week. Roll Call photojournalists were there to capture the action.
Visitors wait to enter the Supreme Court building for the first day of the court’s new term on Monday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., leaves the House Democrats’ caucus meeting on the motion to vacate in the Capitol on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Reps. Eli Crane, R-Ariz., center, and Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., left, arrive for a procedural vote on the motion to oust the speaker on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)Sen. Laphonza Butler, D-Calif., raises her right hand as Vice President Kamala Harris performs a ceremonial swearing-in at the Capitol on Tuesday. Holding the Bible is Butler’s wife, Neneki Lee. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., leaves the House chamber in the Capitol after his colleagues voted to remove him as speaker on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., arrives for a House Republican Conference meeting in the Capitol on Tuesday evening after the speaker was ousted. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)A staffer takes a photo of the Washington Post front page at the entrance to the speaker’s office suite in the Capitol on Wednesday morning. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Flowers sit at Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s seat on Wednesday during the first Senate Judiciary Committee hearing since the senator died. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)Speaker pro tempore Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., center, and Rep. French Hill, R-Ark., right, leave the Capitol on Wednesday, the day after McCarthy was ousted. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
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