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UNITED STATES - JUNE 21: DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, center, Tiffany L., Brown, chairperson of ANC 7B, Vincent Gray, third from right, ward 7 councilman, Kenyan McDuffie, second from right, ward 5 councilman, Gary D. Rappaport, second from left, and others, conduct a ground breaking ceremony on the retail construction phase at Skyland Town Center, “the first town center development in Southeast D.C.,” Monday, June 21, 2021. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photo of the day: Groundbreaking

By Tom Williams
Posted June 21, 2021 at 3:24pm
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., center, House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn, D-S.C., and other members attend the enrollment ceremony for the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act on June 17, 2021.

Photos of the week ending June 18, 2021

By Caroline Brehman, Bill Clark and Tom Williams
Posted June 18, 2021 at 10:28am
UNITED STATES - JUNE 17: Congressional staffers carry Nartional Seersucker Day cutout posters into the Ohio Clock Corridor for the annual Seersucker Thursday photo-op in the Capitol on Thursday, June 17, 2021. (Photo by Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photo of the day: #seersuckerthursday

By Bill Clark
Posted June 17, 2021 at 2:19pm
The Freedom High School Patriot Band from Bethlehem, Pa., warms up on the National Mall before the start of the first National Veterans Parade in Washington on Sunday.

Capitol Lens | National Veterans Parade

Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy pulls out a couch to use in a group photograph of the members in Congress dressed to celebrate National Seersucker Day in 2019. After a pandemic-forced hiatus, the event is back for 2021.

Hot suit summer: Seersucker day is back in Washington

By Chris Cioffi
Posted June 17, 2021 at 5:45am
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Reps. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y., left, and Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., attend an enrollment ceremony in the Capitol for a bill to designate the National Pulse Memorial on Wednesday, June 16, 2021. The memorial will honor victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Fla., on June 12, 2016.

Photo of the day: National Pulse Memorial

By Tom Williams
Posted June 16, 2021 at 4:38pm
Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., helped sink the Juneteenth push last time, but this year he does not plan to object, he announced Tuesday.

Senate passes bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday after Johnson backs down

By Jim Saksa
Posted June 15, 2021 at 2:25pm, Updated at 6:14pm
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., calls on reporters during a news conference following the Senate Democrats policy luncheon in the Capitol on Tuesday — the first such event in a while.

Scenes from the Capitol’s busy, noisy, close-talking comeback

By Jim Saksa
Posted June 15, 2021 at 5:20pm
UNITED STATES - JUNE 12: A guest attends a Capital Pride rally at Freedom Plaza to celebrate the LGBTQ community on Saturday, June 12, 2021. The Trump International Hotel appears at right. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photo of the day: Capital Pride

By Tom Williams
Posted June 14, 2021 at 4:59pm
Reps. Dean Phillips and Chrissy Houlahan teamed up to form a new congressional caucus this month.

A kinder, gentler capitalism? These lawmakers think it can work

By Jim Saksa
Posted June 14, 2021 at 11:00am
Sen. Cory Booker speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee markup in the Hart Building on June 10, 2021.

Aliens, magnets and altering the moon’s orbit — Congressional Hits and Misses

By Thomas McKinless
Posted June 11, 2021 at 2:10pm
UNITED STATES - JUNE 10: Former Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., talks on his phone while sitting on hearing room chairs in the first floor hallway of the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Thursday, June 10, 2021.(Photo by Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week ending June 11, 2021

By Tom Williams, Caroline Brehman and Bill Clark
Posted June 11, 2021 at 11:44am
UNITED STATES - JUNE 10: Former Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., talks on his phone while sitting on hearing room chairs in the first floor hallway of the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Thursday, June 10, 2021.(Photo by Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photo of the day: Nelson spotted

By Bill Clark
Posted June 10, 2021 at 1:58pm
UNITED STATES - JUNE 9: Ranking member Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, holds up a picture of Alaskans dumping human waste from a “honey bucket” during the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies hearing titled “Fiscal Year 2022 Budget Request for The Environmental Protection Agency,” in Dirksen Building on Wednesday, June 9, 2021. EPA Administrator Michael Regan testified. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photo of the day: Honey bucket

By Tom Williams
Posted June 9, 2021 at 3:35pm
The Senate page program has been on hiatus during the pandemic but will return in the fall. Above, pages ride the subway to deliver copies of a bill to the Senate document room in July 2017.

Senate pages to return this fall after pandemic hiatus

By Chris Cioffi
Posted June 9, 2021 at 1:55pm
Rep. Dan Crenshaw has been grounded in Texas for two months thanks to a detached retina. He plans to return to D.C. next week.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s eye surgery gave him a ‘true excuse’ to work remotely

By Chris Cioffi
Posted June 9, 2021 at 5:45am
NBC producer Frank Thorp takes a photo from the second floor of the Hart Senate Office Building while waiting for Senate Democrats to hold their press conference on Tuesday, June 8, 2021.

Photo of the day: Photographer vs. photographer

By Bill Clark
Posted June 8, 2021 at 4:31pm
When Bill Nye testified on Capitol Hill this week, it wasn’t the first time. Above, the Science Guy addresses a House Appropriations subcommittee back in 2009.

Definitely no climate change de-Nye-r, Science Guy urges Congress to act

By Jim Saksa
Posted June 8, 2021 at 3:28pm
National Audubon Society government affairs coordinator Tykee James, center, and Hill staffers look at birds though binoculars in Bartholdi Park on Friday morning.

This birder is bringing the binoculars to Congress

By Chris Cioffi
Posted June 8, 2021 at 5:45am
Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., said the Republican Party can "get the smile back" in the extended Trump era.

‘I would like us to get the smile back’: Sen. Kevin Cramer on the GOP

By Jim Saksa
Posted June 2, 2021 at 5:45am
UNITED STATES - JUNE 1: Hélène Golay stocks inventory at Capitol Hill Books on C Street, SE, on the day the store reopened to indoor customers after being closed for several months due to COVID-19, on Tuesday, June1, 2021. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photo of the day: Capitol Hill Books, back in action

By Tom Williams
Posted June 1, 2021 at 3:39pm