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Photographer for @rollcall on Capitol Hill. Instagram: https://t.co/1eZ9mBBzls. Profile pic by @WinMc
Washington, DC
Joined February 2011
The Rep. Clyde news reminded me of this: . UNITED STATES - JANUARY 6: Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., second from top left, helps barricade the House chamber door as rioters disrupt the joint session of Congress to certify the Electoral College vote on January 6, 2021.
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"I wouldn't want Danny to see me in a wheelchair," said former Sen. Bob Dole as he was assisted to the casket of the late Sen. Daniel Inouye in the U.S. Capitol rotunda on Dec. 20, 2012. They had known each other since 1945 while recovering from World War II battle wounds.
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Afghan refugees arrive to Dulles International Airport on Friday, August 27, 2021, after fleeing Afghanistan as it fell to the Taliban.
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.@RepAOC greets Luca, a 3-month-old pit bull mix, in Rayburn Building on Thursday, March 28th. Luca belongs to Will Shefelman from the office of @RepKathleenRice. @AOC
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Rudolph Giuliani, attorney for President Trump, conducts a news conference at the Republican National Committee on lawsuits regarding the outcome of the presidential election on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020.
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.@lisamurkowski dashes through the treacherous closing door of the Dirksen/Hart subway in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, May 3, 2022.
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Former mayors @timkaine (Richmond, Va.) and @JohnFetterman (Braddock, Pa.) talk in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022.
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.@SenatorCollins & @SenatorHeitkamp hug in the Captiol after @SenateMajLdr announced the plan to repeal and replace the ACA had been pulled.
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.@BenSasse helps his daughter Alexandra, 14, with algebra homework as @SenatorTimScott looks on, during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in Dirksen Building.
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.@SenSanders arrives to Dirksen Building on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. #shirts
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After I shot this, @SenJohnMcCain said something like “You better not use that!” I said I had to bc it was the best picture I got all week. He just laughed it off. Photo from January 2015, U.S. Capitol.
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A Ukrainian soldier signs his country’s flag for @RepTedLieu outside the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on “Exposing Putin’s Crimes: Evidence of Russian War Crimes and Other Atrocities in Ukraine,” on Capitol Hill, April 19, 2023.
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U.S. Olympic gymnasts @Aly_Raisman, @McKaylaMaroney @MagsGotSwag12 & @Simone_Biles arrive for the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the "Inspector General’s Report on the FBI’s Handling of the Larry Nassar Investigation,” on Capitol Hill on Sept. 15, 2021.
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House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., is seen on the House floor during the 6th vote in which he did not receive the votes to become Speaker on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023.
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U.S. Capitol Police officers salute as a hearse carrying the body of Officer Brian D. Sicknick, who was killed by rioters Wednesday, passes during a procession on Third Street on Sunday, January 10, 2021.
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A girl watches the motion to adjourn vote after @GOPLeader did not receive enough votes in the 14th ballot to be elected Speaker on Friday, Jan. 6, 2023.
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Sandra Garza, the companion of late U.S. Capitol Police Off. Brian Sicknick, greets Off. Harry Dunn, before the @January6thCmte hearing on Capitol Hill, June 9 2022. 2) Dunn, DC Off. Hodges, Erin Smith, @SergeantAqGo, Michael Fanone, arrive. #January6thCommitte @libradunn
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.@MaxwellFrostFL takes a selfie with @USProgressives including @RobertGarcia @Delia4Congress @PramilaJayapal @IlhanMN after a news conference with newly elected incoming CPC members in D.C., on Nov. 13, 2022.
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Richard Gere hugs @RepMcGovern during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on legislation which aims to bring a peaceful end to the conflict between Tibet and China, on March 28, 2023.
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Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr Chaika & @SenDuckworth demonstrate their prosthetic legs at Medical Center Orthotics & Prosthetics on October 11, in Silver Spring, Md., where he received treatment. He lost his leg due to a tank shell explosion during the Russian invasion in April.
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Security barricades the door of the House chamber as members of Congress take cover while protesters attempt to break into the joint session of Congress to certify the Electoral College vote on Wednesday. @RepJasonCrow @RepDean @RepSusanWild
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.@SergeantAqGo pays respects to Hershel Woodrow “Woody” Williams, the last Medal of Honor recipient of WWII, in the Capitol Rotunda as his remains lie in honor on July 14, 2022. Williams, who passed away at age 98, received the award for action in Iwo Jima.
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.@RepJoeBarton and his sons board the subway in the Capitol after a shooting at the Republican's baseball practice in Va. #baseballshooting
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.@VP @SenSchumer & @LeaderMcConnell walk through the U.S. Capitol Rotunda before President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, March 1, 2022.
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Thank you for your calm leadership, sir.
Many have reached out about this photo. Thank you, but also thank the journalists behind the photos. Many were locked with us in the House Gallery as riots surrounded the chamber. Amid violence in our Capitol, they captured history. (Tom Williams @pennstatetom, CQ Roll Call)
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Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., leaves the U.S. Capitol after the House voted to expel him from Congress on Friday, December 01, 2023.
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David Letterman and @alfranken meet with climate change activists in the atrium of Hart Building ahead of tomorrow's @Peoples_Climate march
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Members react as acting AG Matt Whitaker informs Chairman @RepJerryNadler his five minute questioning period was over, during a @HouseJudiciary hearing where he was questioned about Robert Mueller's investigation.@RepJayapal @RepRaskin @RepZoeLofgren @RepDougCollins
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A worker pushes a senate subway car Friday morning as the Senate considers the House passed continuing resolution to fund the government on January 19, 2018.
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President @JoeBiden makes his way out of the U.S. Capitol after delivering the State of the Union address on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023.
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.@RepEscobar @RepSpeier @NormaJTorres @RepDebHaaland @JacksonLeeTX18 @repkclark @janschakowsky deliver a letter to the office of @senatemajldr calling for the stoppage of the Supreme Court confirmation process until after the presidential inauguration on Friday. @HouseDemWomen
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.@SenateMajLdr gives a thumbs up after the Senate invoked the nuclear option to allow for a majority vote on SCOTUS nominees. #NeilGorsuch
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.@SenJohnMcCain reacts to reporters' string of questions on if a special prosecutor is needed to investigate Pres. Trump's ties to Russia
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.@kittenxlady @RepMikeBishop @RepJimmyPanetta play with #kittens during an event in Rayburn Building on bipartisan legislation, the #KITTENact, to end the USDA's testing on kittens on June 7, 2018. @kararowland
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Musician @steveaoki talks w/ @KeeganMKey & @robertAbooey of @sternshow at last night's #WHCD Yahoo/ABC News party
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.@JeffFlake and his wife Cheryl, leave the Capitol on the day he announced he will not run for re-election in Arizona.
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.@GabbyGiffords and @RepLucyMcBath embrace at a memorial on the Mall to honor victims of gun violence and call for action on gun safety legislation on June 7, 2022.
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Hope Hicks, the former WH communication director, is seen during a closed-door interview with the @HouseJudiciary about their investigation of President Trump and the Robert Mueller report on Wednesday, June 19, 2019.
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Donald Trump Jr. stakeout @kasie @GarrettHaake @VaughnHillyard @frankthorp @Graeme_rj @ajdukakis @marykbruce
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.@ParisHilton takes a spin through the Capitol Rotunda on Thursday, her second day of advocating on the Hill for youth protections.
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Impeachment managers walk through Statuary Hall to deliver the article of impeachment against former President Trump to the Senate floor. @RepRaskin @RepDianaDeGette @davidcicilline @JoaquinCastrotx @RepSwalwell @tedlieu @repdean @StaceyPlaskett @RepJoeNeguse
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.@SpeakerPelosi reminds media to practice better #socialdistancing among themselves after an interview in Russell Building as Congress remains absent due to the #coronavirus on April 1, 2020. @Tay_Griffin14, staffing.
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.@Rep_Magaziner and his son Max arrive for the last House votes of the week in the U.S. Capitolon Friday, April 28, 2023.
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Bono, of U2 and @ONECampaign, is seen in the U.S. Capitol office of @SenJohnThune on Wednesday, March 30 2022.
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Aides for @stevedaines (L-R) @yates_lindsay, @mkinzel & @katiewaldman are seen in their #Halloween costumes that represent the population ratio of 3 cows to 1 person in Montana.
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.@JoeBiden @SpeakerPelosi & @RepKClark arrive for a meeting of the @HouseDemocrats on the infrastructure bill in the U.S. Capitol on Friday, October 1, 2021.
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Leslie Luna, left, and friends sit near the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool while watching President-elect @JoeBiden and Vice President-elect @KamalaHarris deliver remarks from Wilmington, Del., on Saturday, November 7, 2020.
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Catcher @ChrisMurphyCT prepares to tag out @RepKatCammack at home plate during the Congressional Baseball Game at Nationals Park on Thursday, July 28, 2022.
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.@ShontelMBrown is sworn into @TheBlackCaucus in Statuary Hall after her swear-in to Congress on the House floor on Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021. @SecFudge, whose seat Brown filled, holds the Bible.
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Lead impeachment manager @RepRaskin prepares for the start of the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump in the Capitol on Tuesday, February 9, 2021.
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.@ChuckGrassley receives a cake from @SenFeinstein to celebrate his 63rd wedding anniversary & his upcoming bday during a @senjudiciary mtg
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.@kasie & @Phil_Mattingly interview @LindseyGrahamSC before a bipartisan senators' meeting on immigration in Dirksen on Thursday, Jan. 25. @frankthorp producing.
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Great to sit down with you, ole friend!.
Rep. Andrew Clyde - who compared January 6 to a "normal tourist visit" -was photographed barricading the doors of the House floor that day. Tom Williams captured that image and what he describes is anything but a normal day. @pennstatetom
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is seen in the U.S. Capitol with aides @jamespmanley and @rodell on December 8, 2010.
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Sen. Dole visits pets at the @aspca #paws4celebration adoption event on the Hill. http://t.co/3wEjI1j9cE.
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Supporters of #BernieSanders attend a rally for the candidate outside of RFK Stadium in Wash., DC. #bernieinDC
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.@AyannaPressley greets Deco, @AOC's French bulldog, in Rayburn Building on Wednesday, February 12, 2020.
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.@RepJeffries & @SpeakerPelosi recite the Pledge at a ceremony to mark the 2nd anniversary of Jan. 6th riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2023. 2) Abigail Evans, the daughter of the late Cap. Police Off. Billy Evans, and her mother Shannon Terranova. @HouseDemocrats
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Protesters burn an effigy of Donald Trump in Lee Circle before a march through New Orleans, La., November 9, 2016.
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.@SenSchumer along with his grandson and daughter, are seen on the senate subway in the Capitol on Thursday, July 22, 2021.
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.@RepSpartz, center, @RepStefanik & @RepBice are seen after a @HouseGOP news conference on Capitol Hill where Spartz, a Ukrainian-born American, called the Russian invasion a genocide, on Tuesday, March 1, 2022.
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.@SenatorLeahy and his wife, Marcelle, are seen in the Capitol beneath an 1873 painting of Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner after after the Senate luncheons on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019.
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.@60minutes used my 2015 pic of Dr. Fauci at his NIH office. He was generous with his time and humored my request of walking the grounds to look for more photo ideas and even asked his staffer to hold a light.
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.@davidhogg111 & @Emma4Change, survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas H.S. shooting, attend the #lettersforchange rally at the Capitol before delivering constituent letters to Hill offices calling for an expansion of background checks on gun purchases on March 25th.
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.@SteveScalise is congratulated by teammates after throwing out the first runner of the night during the 57th annual #CongressionalBaseballGame at Nationals Park on June 14, 2018. @RepBradWenstrup @RepJeffDuncan @RepMoBrooks @RepMarkWalker
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.@AOC @DanRiffle @RepKatieHill @JahanaHayesCT and @LaurenUnderwood ride the Senate subway to Russell Building to deliver a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell calling on the Senate to act on House passed legislation to reopen the government.
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The hearse carrying the remains of the late Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., pauses at Black Lives Matter Plaza on 16th NW, during a procession to the U.S. Capitol Building for a memorial service on Monday, July 27, 2020.
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Presidential candidates @KamalaHarris and @SenGillibrand leave the Capitol after voting on an amendment that would prohibit a strike on Iran without Congressional authorization on June 28, 2019. ( some serious staffing by @chris_p_harris)
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U.S. Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger and Off. Harry Dunn are seen at a ceremony to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the Capitol Police, D.C. MPD and "the heroes of January 6th,” in the Capitol Rotunda on Dec. 6, 2022. @libradunn
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Abigail Evans, 7, center, and Logan, 9, the children of U.S. Capitol Police Off. William “Billy” Evans, and their mother Shannon Terranova, look on as his remains lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday, April 13, 2021.
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.@SenSchumer emerges from the chamber after the Senate voted to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court on a 53-47 vote, in the U.S. Capitol on Thurs., April 7, 2022.
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Dressed as Rich Uncle Pennybags, @wamandajd of @Public_Citizen sits behind Richard Smith, CEO of #Equifax, during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on the company's security breach.
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.@SenMarkKelly gives a tour of the U.S. Capitol to astronauts from @NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission Nicole Mann, Josh Cassada, and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, on June 7, 2023.
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Reps. Smith, Mast, Rogers, Duncan, Fortenberry and Walden make their way to and from a meeting where Speaker Ryan canceled the #ahca vote
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.@senatordole meets a beagle mix puppy at the @aspaca Paws for Love adoption event in Rayburn, to draw attention to rescue animals.
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.@RepEsty @sethmoulton @USRepDavidJolly @RepGwenGraham at the Capitol during #NoBillNoBreak sit-in. #gunviolence
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.@repjohnlewis & @SenatorLeahy walk to the House floor for the #NoBillNoBreak sit-in calling for a #gunviolence vote
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President @JoeBiden presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Olympians @Simone_Biles and @mPinoe, 2 of this year's 17 recipients of the nation's highest civilian honor, during a White House ceremony on July 7, 2022.
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.@SenatorCollins & @SenatorLeahy are seen in the basement of the Capitol before the Senate vote to start debate on the healthcare bill.
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.@SpeakerMcCarthy conducts a news conference in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023.
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Revelers celebrate @JoeBiden becoming the 46th president of the United States and @KamalaHarris vice president, in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, November 7, 2020.
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.@derrickvanorden @RepJenKiggans @marcmolinaro @Kat_Cammack hold black labrador police puppies in training from American K-9 Interdiction at the House steps on Dec. 7, 2023. The dogs are trained in Kiggans’ district in Carrsville, Va.
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.@ParisHilton is seen in Hart Building while on Capitol Hill to advocate for legislation to protect children in youth residential programs, on May 10, 2022.
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.@CoryBooker @brianschatz & @ChrisMurphyCT arrive at the CBO in Ford Building to ask Director Hall to see the GOP health care bill.
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.@SenTomCotton peeks into the @SenateGOP luncheon in the Capitol's Mike Mansfield Room before entering on January 23, 2018.
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.@RepDean reacts as @RepLucyMcBath spoke about her son’s murder at the @HouseJudiciary markup of the "Protecting Our Kids Act,” that addresses gun violence prevention on June 2, 2022.
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Senate pages ride the Capitol subway to deliver copies of the American Health Care Act of 2017 to the Senate document room. #HealthcareBill
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Sen.-elect @KamalaHarris is surrounded by media who were questioning @SenFeinstein after the Senate leadership elections in the Capitol.
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.@SpeakerRyan reacts as @VP puts down an objection by a Dem member to the #ElectoralCollege tally. Protesters also disrupted the count.
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A student from Wisconsin takes a break on the East Front lawn of the Capitol.
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.@ParisHilton is seen on the steps of the U.S. Capitol before a news conference on the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act, Thursday, April 27, 2023.
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