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Front row from right, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, along with fellow lawmakers from both chambers, participate in a remembrance ceremony Monday on the East Front steps of the Capitol for the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

How we got here: The raw post-9/11 films of Greg Barker

By Jason Dick
Posted September 14, 2021 at 6:30am
UNITED STATES - SEPTEMBER 13: Large photo posters from the French-artist JR’s “Inside Out Project” are installed on a building on Constitution Ave. NE across from the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Monday, Sept. 13, 2021. (Photo by Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photo of the day: Inside out

By Bill Clark
Posted September 13, 2021 at 4:12pm
Stewart Verdery, CEO of Monument Advocacy, is photographed in his Washington office on Thursday.

Post-9/11 bipartisanship ‘hard to imagine’

By Kate Ackley
Posted September 10, 2021 at 6:30am
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, center, talks with then-Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Joe Biden, D-Del., right, and ranking member Richard G. Lugar, R-Ind., before a hearing on Jan. 31, 2007. Kissinger died on Wednesday.

Kissinger and the Capitol

Aimee Steel Lubin remembers evacuating from the Capitol complex on 9/11, as people ran for the exits and slipped on the marble stairs.

‘They’re always there’ — memories of evacuating Capitol Hill on 9/11

By Kate Ackley
Posted September 9, 2021 at 12:21pm
A bill introduced by Rep. Sara Jacobs, D-Calif., and Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, would specify that no entity may “collect, retain, use, or disclose personal reproductive or sexual health information” without an express permission from an individual or to provide services to the individual. 

Take Five: Sara Jacobs

By Jim Saksa
Posted September 9, 2021 at 5:30am
Police tape is seen on Independence Avenue Southwest during Thursday’s bomb threat standoff in front of the Library of Congress.

Hill staff say fear of political violence can feel like part of the job 

By Chris Cioffi
Posted August 23, 2021 at 9:55am
Aides arrive with Electoral College ballot boxes on Jan. 6, hours before the House chamber devolved into chaos. This week a nonpartisan foundation paid tribute to floor staffers and their service on that day.

Floor staffers were a quiet force on Jan. 6. Now they’re getting an award

By Chris Cioffi
Posted August 18, 2021 at 6:00am
Rep. Jake Auchincloss walks up the House steps at the Capitol for the last vote of the week on June 17, 2021.

Take Five: Jake Auchincloss

By Jim Saksa
Posted August 11, 2021 at 2:07pm, Updated at 3:14pm
Lightning strikes Washington as seen from the Capitol during the Senate vote-a-rama on Tuesday.

Photo of the day: Lightning round

By Bill Clark
Posted August 11, 2021 at 11:23am
UNITED STATES - JANUARY 6: Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., comforts Rep. Susan Wild, D-Pa., while taking cover as rioters disrupt the joint session of Congress to certify the Electoral College vote on Wednesday, January 6, 2021. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the year so far: Turbulent times

By Tom Williams, Caroline Brehman and Bill Clark
Posted August 6, 2021 at 1:30pm
Why do senators do this to themselves?

The Senate is about to pull some all-nighters. Why?

By Jim Saksa
Posted August 5, 2021 at 2:52pm
Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., and Cindy McCain, the widow of the late Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., arrive to the Capitol ahead of his first speech on the Senate floor, on Wednesday, August 04, 2021.

Photo of the day: Raising Arizona

By Tom Williams
Posted August 4, 2021 at 3:29pm
As they make a final sprint on infrastructure, senators are resigned to weekend work. “If it means that I have to work through the weekends, I will work through the weekends,” says Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, who worked with Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., on the bipartisan package.

More work on Sundays makes senators ‘cranky’

By Chris Cioffi
Posted August 4, 2021 at 11:37am
Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez, D-N.M., speaks with CQ Roll Call in her office on July 21.

Take Five: Teresa Leger Fernandez

By Jim Saksa
Posted August 4, 2021 at 6:00am
UNITED STATES - AUGUST 3: Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., takes a selfie with attendees of the rally held by Declaration for American Democracy outside the Capitol on Tuesday, August 3, 2021, calling on the Senate to put recess on hold until they pass the For the People Act. (Photo by Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photo of the day: Selfie senator

By Bill Clark
Posted August 3, 2021 at 3:37pm
Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., holds a "housing is a human right" sign at the House steps on Saturday morning, July 31, 2021. She and Reps. Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley spent the night outside to call on President Joe Biden and Congress to renew the expiring eviction moratorium.

Photo of the day: Evictions protest

By Bill Clark
Posted August 2, 2021 at 3:29pm
Rep. Dean Phillips' dog Henry gets a drink of water at the House Triangle during the Problem Solvers Caucus news conference on the infrastructure deal outside of the Capitol on Friday, July 30, 2021.

Photos of the week ending July 30, 2021

By Tom Williams and Bill Clark
Posted July 30, 2021 at 1:51pm
Many Hill staffers are still working from home, including Copeland Tucker, communications director for Rep. André Carson.

This is the future of remote work on Capitol Hill

By Chris Cioffi
Posted July 29, 2021 at 6:30am
A few recent reports give some insight into staff diversity on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.

What the latest numbers show on Hill staff diversity

By Jim Saksa
Posted July 29, 2021 at 6:15am
“When you’re making policy, you can’t always read it in a book,” says Rep. Tony Gonzales, who got his start on Capitol Hill as a military fellow in Sen. Marco Rubio’s office.

‘Sometimes you gotta live it’: Tony Gonzales on why Capitol Hill needs more veterans

By Teresa Cardenas
Posted July 29, 2021 at 6:00am