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Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., tried and failed to find common ground with the Labor secretary on Wednesday.

Congressman to sober Marty Walsh: Do you like Irish whiskey?

By Caitlin Reilly
Posted April 28, 2021 at 3:19pm
Beach reads: These books breeze through old ideas about Washington, D.C. (Composition by Chris Hale)

Can’t get enough of political Washington? Here’s your summer reading list

By Lindsey Gilbert
Posted April 28, 2021 at 6:30am
UNITED STATES - APRIL 27: Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., carries a copy of Sen. Amy KlobucharÕs book ÒAntitrustÓ as he arrives in the Capitol on the Senate subway on Tuesday, April 27, 2021. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photo of the day: Subway read

By Bill Clark
Posted April 27, 2021 at 4:09pm

Capitol Lens | El mariachi

UNITED STATES - APRIL 20: Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., left, hugs Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., in the Rayburn Room in the U.S. Capitol after the reading of guilty verdicts in the Derek Chauvin trial on Tuesday, April 20, 2021. The Congressional Black Caucus gathered in the Rayburn Room to watch the verdict before holding a press conference outside. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week ending April 23, 2021

By Bill Clark, Caroline Brehman and Tom Williams
Posted April 23, 2021 at 11:57am
Cardi B performs onstage during the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on March 14.

This congressman picked a fight with Cardi B. It went how you’d expect

By Jim Saksa
Posted April 22, 2021 at 4:05pm
UNITED STATES - April 22: A Union Station parking garage worker inspects an electric fixture as it sparks and smokes as Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg holds a news conference on electric vehicles in Washington on Thursday, April 22, 2021. (Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)

Photo of the day: Smokin’!

By Caroline Brehman
Posted April 22, 2021 at 4:03pm
Lawmakers gathered at the Capitol on Wednesday to honor the late Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., seen here in 2019.

‘Friend when needed, foe when appropriate’: Congress remembers Alcee Hastings

By Jim Saksa
Posted April 21, 2021 at 4:07pm
UNITED STATES - APRIL 21: Lawrence Jackson, chief photographer for the Vice President Kamala Harris, speaks with Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., in the Senate Reception Room while waiting for the Vice President to depart in the Capitol on Wednesday, April 21, 2021. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photo of the day: Family chat

By Bill Clark
Posted April 21, 2021 at 3:32pm
From Six PAC to Steer PAC to all kinds of acronyms, new lawmakers are getting in on the fundraising name game. Above, House Republicans pose for a new member photo on the steps of the Capitol on Jan. 4.

Leadership PACs are often overlooked. These corny names can’t be ignored

By Herb Jackson
Posted April 20, 2021 at 6:00am
UNITED STATES - APRIL 19: Hannah Bove of Boston, reads a memento that was placed at the recently opened National World War I Memorial in downtown Washington, D.C., on Monday, April 19, 2021. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Photo of the day: WWI Memorial

By Tom Williams
Posted April 19, 2021 at 5:06pm
Army veteran Andrew Forte watches on a monitor the nearby ceremony in Pershing Park on Friday to open the National World War I Memorial. Frank Buckles, the last American WWI veteran to die, appears on the monitor.

More than a century later, WWI gets its memorial in Washington

By Jim Saksa
Posted April 16, 2021 at 2:00pm
UNITED STATES - April 13: The casket of U.S. Capitol Police Officer William "Billy" Evans arrives to the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, April 13, 2021. Evans was killed on April 2, 2021 in a violent incident at a security checkpoint on the Capitol grounds (Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Call)

Photos of the week ending April 16, 2021

By Caroline Brehman, Tom Williams and Bill Clark
Posted April 16, 2021 at 11:46am
UNITED STATES - APRIL 15: The U.S. Capitol dome is framed by red tulips on the East Plaza of the Capitol on Thursday, April 15, 2021. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photo of the day: April flowers

By Bill Clark
Posted April 15, 2021 at 4:12pm
Architect of the Capitol staff hold rare century-old mahogany obtained from a U.S. Forest Service lab storage locker in Wisconsin.

This wood sat in storage for 100 years. Now it’s being used to fix Capitol riot damage

By Chris Cioffi
Posted April 15, 2021 at 6:45am
UNITED STATES - APRIL 14: Jeremicah Letlow, 3, stands in front of his mother Rep. Julia Letlow, R-La., during her ceremonial swearing-in in the Rayburn Room of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, April 14, 2021. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photo of the day: Rep. Letlow is sworn in

By Bill Clark
Posted April 14, 2021 at 5:50pm
A couple dances at the White House Correspondents' Jam II party during a weekend of festivities for the White House Corespondents' Dinner in 2016. The event has been canceled in 2021 amid the pandemic.

White House Correspondents’ Dinner gets canceled … again

By Chris Cioffi
Posted April 14, 2021 at 3:39pm
Former Speaker John Boehner gets choked up as he stands next to a portrait of himself at the Capitol in 2019.

All the times John Boehner cried

By Lindsey Gilbert
Posted April 13, 2021 at 1:59pm
Kentucky Rep. Andy Barr says he’s trying to follow his late wife’s advice: “You gotta just get it done.”

‘Her death was preventable’: Andy Barr channels grief into bill honoring his late wife

By Jim Saksa
Posted April 13, 2021 at 6:30am
The &pizza in the Rayburn House Office Building closed hours after it reopened Monday because it sold out of pizza.

&pizza closes early in Rayburn after staffers eat all the pizza

By Chris Cioffi
Posted April 12, 2021 at 4:51pm, Updated at 5:55pm
UNITED STATES - APRIL 7: U.S. Capitol Police officers, including acting chief Yogananda Pittman (center) line 3rd St as law enforcement officers escort the body of fallen U.S. Capitol Police officer William ‘Billy’ Evans past the West Front of the Capitol to the funeral home on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. Officer Evans was killed during the attack at the Capitol on Friday. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Photo of the day: Officer Evans procession

By Bill Clark
Posted April 7, 2021 at 1:55pm