{"id":658711,"date":"2026-05-22T15:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/658711\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T15:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T15:51:13","slug":"photos-of-the-week-may-15-21-2026-roll-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/658711\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos of the week | May 15-21, 2026 \u2013 Roll Call"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posted May 22, 2026 at 10:27am<\/p>\n

Appearances on the Hill by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and actor Noah Wyle highlighted the week at the Capitol. Here are images captured by CQ Roll Call photojournalists this week.<\/p>\n

\"\"Iranian Americans and supporters of Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of National Council of Resistance of Iran, rally in Upper Senate Park on Saturday to urge governments to condemn recent political prisoner executions in Iran. (Tom Williams\/CQ Roll Call)<\/p>\n

\"\"Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and his wife, Kristine, arrive on Tuesday for a Senate Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the Justice Department\u2019s budget. (Tom Williams\/CQ Roll Call)<\/p>\n

\"\"FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford speaks with family members who lost loved ones on Flight 5342, which collided with an Army helicopter near Ronald Reagan National Airport last year. The family members were advocating for new safety measures to prevent similar crashes, as Bedford testified Tuesday to the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Subcommittee on Aviation, Space and Innovation. (Bill Clark\/CQ Roll Call)<\/p>\n

\"\"Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., arrives for the House Republican Conference meeting in the Cannon House Office Building on Wednesday. (Bill Clark\/CQ Roll Call)<\/p>\n

\"\"Rep. Aaron Bean, R-Fla., arrives for the House Republican Conference meeting in the Speaker Nancy Pelosi Caucus Room in the Cannon House Office Building on Wednesday. (Bill Clark\/CQ Roll Call)<\/p>\n

\"\"California Gov. Gavin Newsom walks through the Senate subway to the Capitol after making a stop at Cups coffee shop on Wednesday. (Bill Clark\/CQ Roll Call)<\/p>\n

\"\"A sign referencing high gas prices and Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., is seen at an event hosted by VoteVets to \u201ccall on Congress to do everything in its power to stop Trump\u2019s Iran war,\u201d outside the Capitol on Wednesday. (Tom Williams\/CQ Roll Call)<\/p>\n

\"\"From left, Florida Republican Reps. Mar\u00eda Elvira Salazar, Byron Donalds, Carlos Gimenez and Sen. Rick Scott conduct a news conference Wednesday in the Capitol on developments regarding Cuba and the indictment of former Cuban President Rau\u0301l Castro. (Tom Williams\/CQ Roll Call)<\/p>\n

\"\"Noah Wyle, producer and star of \u201cThe Pitt,\u201d talks with health care professionals and medical students during the \u201cHealthcare Is Human\u201d rally in Upper Senate Park on Thursday. The rally was held to call on Congress to increase resources for the health care industry. (Tom Williams\/CQ Roll Call)<\/p>\n

\"\"Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche leaves the vice president\u2019s office in the Senate Reception Room to meet with Republican senators in the Capitol on Thursday. (Bill Clark\/CQ Roll Call)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted May 22, 2026 at 10:27am Appearances on the Hill by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, California Gov.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,251463,11827,22611,82250,150,2356,1340,283760,13962,23507,25561,33718,2808,97,252,253,7231,801,6856,6098,28859,6377,2005,3,2186,79,720,6145,3479,14741,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-658711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-appropriations","tag-army","tag-aviation","tag-brand-safety","tag-budget","tag-california","tag-congress","tag-defense-commissary-agency","tag-executive-branch","tag-faa","tag-families","tag-federal-aviation-administration","tag-florida","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-house","tag-iran","tag-leadership","tag-louisiana","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-national","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-republicans","tag-science","tag-senate","tag-transportation","tag-trump","tag-u-s-army","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}