Photos of the week ending Feb. 18, 2022

Heard on the Hill

Photos of the week ending Feb. 18, 2022

By Tom Williams and Bill Clark

Posted February 18, 2022 at 10:50am

With the House gone for the week, the Senate worked to pass another continuing resolution to avoid a government shutdown. CQ Roll Call photojournalists were there to capture the sights in and around the Capitol:

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., addresses the annual National Association of Counties Legislative Conference via video at the Washington Hilton on Monday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, speaks with reporters in the Senate subway after a vote on Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Reporters flock around Murkowski as Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., checks his phone while waiting for the Senate subway Tuesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., is seen through the hearing room doors as he speaks with witnesses before a Foreign Relations subcommittee hearing in the Dirksen building on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Staffers set up posters before the start of Idaho Republican Sen. Mike Crapo‘s news conference on inflation in the Russell building on Wednesday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, checks his phone in the Capitol during a vote on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Former Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter Freedom walks to the Senate subway during a visit to the Capitol on Wednesday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Heather Boushey, a member of the Council of Economic Advisers, testifies at a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., stops to speak to reporters in the Capitol before attending Senate Democrats’ lunch on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and his chief of staff Sharon Soderstrom leave the Senate Republicans’ luncheon in the Russell building on Thursday. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

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