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Photos of the Week: Town halls and closed doors as impeachment ramps up

The week of Oct. 4 as captured by Roll Call's photographers

Trump supporters protest outside of a town hall held by Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., at New Hope Baptist Church in Virginia Beach on Thursday. (Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)
Trump supporters protest outside of a town hall held by Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., at New Hope Baptist Church in Virginia Beach on Thursday. (Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)
By Bill Clark, Caroline Brehman and Tom Williams
Posted October 4, 2019 at 11:09am

It may be recess, but the Hill was full of reporters and members of the House committees that began an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. 

Roll Call hit the road to visit Democratic town halls in Pennsylvania and Virginia. In Allentown, Pa., Rep. Susan Wild got questions about whether she’d be working on anything other than impeachment. While Rep. Elaine, Luria of Virginia’s 2nd District — which Trump won in 2016 — faced little opposition over her support of the impeachment probe. 

Here’s the entire week in photos:

UNITED STATES - SEPTEMBER 30: Workers move the bust of John Quincy Adams through the Capitol past Speaker Pelosi’s office on Monday, Sept. 30, 2019. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Workers move the bust of John Quincy Adams through the Capitol past Speaker Nancy Pelosi‘s office on Monday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 2: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., depart from a news conference on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019. (Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)
Pelosi and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., depart from a news conference on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. (Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)
UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 2: House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., departs from a news conference on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019. (Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)
Schiff departs from a news conference on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. (Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)
UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 2: Rep. Susan Wild, D-PA., holds a town hall meeting at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa. on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
Rep. Susan Wild, D-PA., holds a town hall meeting at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa. on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
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UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 3: Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., speaks at a town hall at New Hope Baptist Church in Virginia Beach on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019. (Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)
Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., speaks at a town hall at New Hope Baptist Church in Virginia Beach on Thursday. (Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)
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UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 3: Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., leaves the deposition of Kurt Volker, former U.S. special envoy to Ukraine, by House committees in the Capitol Visitor Center, as part of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump on Thursday, October 3, 2019. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., leaves the deposition of Kurt Volker, former U.S. special envoy to Ukraine, by House committees in the Capitol Visitor Center, as part of the impeachment inquiry. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 3: Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., briefly emerges from the deposition of Kurt Volker, former U.S. special envoy to Ukraine, by House committees in the Capitol Visitor Center, as part of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump on Thursday, October 3, 2019. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., briefly emerges from the deposition of Kurt Volker, former U.S. special envoy to Ukraine, by House committees in the Capitol Visitor Center, as part of the impeachment inquiry. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

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