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Photos of the week ending September 13, 2024

Congressional Gold Medals sit in front of photos of military servicemembers killed in the 2021 terrorist attack at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, before the start of the medal ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday.
Congressional Gold Medals sit in front of photos of military servicemembers killed in the 2021 terrorist attack at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, before the start of the medal ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted September 13, 2024 at 9:45am

Congress returned to Washington after a lengthy summer recess. CQ Roll Call photojournalists were back in action as well, capturing the images of Congress being Congress.

Senate appointee George S. Helmy, left, embraces fellow New Jersey Democrat Sen. Cory Booker while waiting for Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., to arrive for his photo-op with Helmy in the Capitol on Monday. Helmy was appointed to take the seat of Democrat Bob Menendez, who resigned. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
From left, Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, House Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., and Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., conduct a news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center on Tuesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
From left, Rep. Laurel Lee, R-Fla., former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., arrive for a news conference outside the Capitol on Tuesday to announce new legislation to combat online child exploitation. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
American flags were planted in Upper Senate Park on Wednesday as part of a project by the Young America’s Foundation to honor the 2,977 lives lost in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Passengers try to exit the Dirksen-Hart Senate subway train as the doors malfunction in the Capitol on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., conducts his weekly news conference in the Capitol Visitor Center on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., look at a poster during Senate Democrats’ media availability on Project 2025 in the Capitol on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

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