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Capitol Lens | Isolation station

By Tom Williams
Posted June 16, 2022 at 3:09pm
“The Senate for too long has underpaid its workers,” says Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii.

Staffers got raises in the House. Now it’s the Senate’s turn, says Schatz

By Chris Cioffi
Posted June 16, 2022 at 6:00am

Capitol Lens | Dark shadows

By Bill Clark
Posted June 15, 2022 at 3:48pm
Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost talks with reporters outside the Capitol on Jan. 18.

In the Spotlight: Maxwell Alejandro Frost

Capitol Lens | Happy Flag Day!

By Bill Clark
Posted June 14, 2022 at 3:18pm

Capitol Lens | Docket change

By Bill Clark
Posted June 13, 2022 at 3:11pm
Lindsey Graham and Bernie Sanders, ranking member and chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, are set to go head to head in a “bridge building” debate on Monday.

Lindsey Graham and Bernie Sanders kick off a new debate series. It’ll be ‘fun’

By Chris Cioffi
Posted June 10, 2022 at 4:38pm
A video replay of the events of Jan. 6, 2021, elicits tears on the faces of Sandra Garza, the companion of late U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, and U.S. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn during the House select Jan. 6 committee’s hearing in the Cannon Building on Thursday evening.

Photos of the week ending June 10, 2022

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted June 10, 2022 at 1:30pm
“I’m tired of being here … doing the job of what our senators should be doing right now,” says Parkland survivor David Hogg ahead of this weekend’s march against violence. Above, he meets former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords at a Tuesday event.

This weekend brings another March For Our Lives

By Chris Cioffi
Posted June 9, 2022 at 7:41pm

Capitol Lens | Pence-ive moment

By Tom Williams
Posted June 9, 2022 at 2:49pm
Former Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., speaks during a Wednesday ceremony to name rooms on the Senate side of the Capitol after her and the late Margaret Chase Smith, R-Maine.

She couldn’t even use the Senate gym. Now she has a room of her own

By Chris Cioffi
Posted June 8, 2022 at 7:52pm
Whenever lawmakers try to give themselves a raise, they risk political backlash. But some say stagnant salaries bode ill for Congress and its future.

Hill staffers just got raises. These lawmakers say it’s their turn

By Chris Cioffi
Posted June 8, 2022 at 3:36pm

Capitol Lens | Remembering the fallen

By Tom Williams
Posted June 8, 2022 at 3:16pm

Capitol Lens | Moose on the loose

By Bill Clark
Posted June 7, 2022 at 3:03pm
Rep. John E. Porter, R-Ill., and his staff work in his office in the Rayburn House Office Building. Staff from left to right, Nicole Wheeler, Susan Firth, Tony McCaun, Carol Murphy and Bob Knisely.

Congress remembers John E. Porter, appropriator and advocate for NIH

By David Lerman
Posted June 7, 2022 at 12:15pm
Rep. Sylvia Garcia has seen her home state lead efforts to roll back abortion rights, but she still believes in Texas’ “independent thinkers.” Above, Garcia, third from right, and several other lawmakers attend a rally at the Supreme Court in 2020.

Don’t call us ‘crazy Texans,’ says Rep. Sylvia Garcia

By Jackie Wang
Posted June 7, 2022 at 6:15am

Capitol Lens | Viva visitors!

By Bill Clark
Posted June 6, 2022 at 1:51pm
Voters in Nye County arrive on the first day of early voting for the Nevada primary races at the Bob Ruud Community Center in Pahrump, Nev., on Saturday.

Photos of the week ending June 3, 2022

By Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted June 3, 2022 at 11:05am

Capitol Lens | A song for Ethan

By Tom Williams
Posted June 2, 2022 at 6:26pm
Adam Conover hitches a ride with the Air Force’s hurricane hunters in “The G Word,” his new show on Netflix.

How ‘The G Word’ blew Adam Conover’s mind

By Jason Dick
Posted June 1, 2022 at 7:30am
Las Vegas Sunrise

Capitol Lens | Strip tease

By Bill Clark
Posted May 31, 2022 at 4:32pm