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Running For The Exits
Congressmen and aides walk down the East Front steps of the House of Representatives after the last scheduled vote of the year on Dec. 18, 2015. The omnibus bill, or year-end spending bill to fund the government, passed in the House and the Senate.
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Jon Stewart On The Hill
Comedian John Stewart, right, speaks with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) in the Senate subway on Dec. 3, 2015, as he lobbies lawmakers to approve the extension of the James Zadroga Act. Stewart was on Capitol Hill along with New York first responders to call on Congress to fully fund programs that provide health care and compensation to 9/11 first responders and survivors.
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Camel At Court
Bo Hartman, from Hickory, N.C., leads Junior the camel during Faith and Action Christian Outreach’s live nativity procession in front of the Supreme Court on Capitol Hill on Dec. 3, 2015.
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Cheney’s Bust
Former Vice President Dick Cheney, back left, his wife Lynne Cheney, back right, and their grandchildren applaud as his marble bust is unveiled in Emancipation Hall on Capitol Hill on Dec. 3, 2015. During the ceremony, congressional leaders and former President George W. Bush paid tribute to Cheney, who also served as a congressman from Wyoming.
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Capitol Christmas Tree
The Christmas tree is seen in front of the Capitol during the ceremonial lighting Dec. 2, 2015. The 74-foot Lutz spruce is from the state of Alaska.
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TPP Time
From left, Reps. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.), Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.), and Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) hold a news conference on the Trans-Pacific Partnership outside the U.S. Capitol on Nov. 18, 2015.
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Signs Of Fall
A worker pushes a bin of leaves through Hart Senate Office Building as others pass by on Capitol Hill on Nov. 18, 2015.
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Bibi On The Hill
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) poses for photographs with (from left) Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Senate Minority Whip Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) in the Strom Thurmond Room at the U.S. Capitol on Nov. 10, 2015. Netanyahu met with U.S. President Barack Obama a day earlier when the two leaders talked about fighting terrorism, the conflict in Syria and healing their rift over the Iran nuclear deal.
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Speaker Ryan
Incoming speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) shakes hands with outgoing Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) stands by in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 29, 2015.
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Happy Speaker
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) (2nd L) and Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) (3rd L) share a moment as Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-Pa.) (L) looks on during a media briefing after a House Republican Conference meeting Sept. 29, 2015, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Boehner announced Sept. 25 that he would be resigning from Congress effective Oct. 30.
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Papal Pause
Pope Francis pauses in front of a sculpture of Spanish-born Junipero Serra, the Franciscan friar known for starting missions in California, in Statuary Hall at the Capitol on Sept. 24, 2015, in Washington, D.C.
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Pope In The House
Pope Francis arrives in the House chamber of the Capitol before he addressed a joint meeting of Congress, Sept. 24, 2015.
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That Hair!
U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz speaks while U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry listens during a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill on July 23, 2015. Kerry, Moniz and U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew appeared before the committee to defend the Obama administration’s proposed deal with Iran over the country’s nuclear program.
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Equality For All
Jami Contreras (second from right) of Detroit, Michigan, her wife, Krista, (fourth from right) and their 9-month-old daughter, Bay, attend a news conference on LGBT discrimination on July 23, 2015 on Capitol Hill. The news conference was to introduce the Equality Act of 2015.
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PETA On The Hill
PETA activists leave after distributing vegan hot dogs on Capitol Hill on July 23, 2015.
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The Fed’s Take
Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen testifies before the House Financial Committee July 15, 2015, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Yellen stuck to her forecast for an increase in the Fed’s key interest rate later this year, predicting a pickup in the U.S. economy. But Yellen also warned that continued turbulence from Greece and China poses risks to the growth picture.
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Richard Gere On Human Rights
People hold photos of Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, who died in a Chinese prison, as U.S. actor Richard Gere testifies before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission hearing “Tibet & China: Searching for New Way Forward” on July 14, 2015, on Capitol Hill.
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Entourage
Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heads to a meeting with the Congressional Progressive Caucus at the U.S. Capitol on July 14, 2015. Clinton had six different meetings on Capitol Hill with members of Congress, including the Senate Democrats.
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Framing Their Arguments
From left: House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.), Senate Minority Whip Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-Calif.) prepare for a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on June 25, 2015. The Democratic leaders called on congressional Republicans to halt their “reckless inaction on the Export-Import Bank and the Highway and Transit Trust Fund.”
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Prayer Circle For Charleston Victims
From left: Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) pray with other members of the U.S. Congress during a prayer circle on June 18, 2015, in front of the Capitol to honor those gunned down inside the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Obama On The Hill
President Barack Obama and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of Calif. leave meeting with House Democrats on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, June 12, 2015. The president made an 11th-hour appeal to dubious Democrats on Friday in a tense run-up to a House showdown on legislation to strengthen his hand in global trade talks. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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National Seersucker Day
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky, center, rear, waves during group photo of Senators for National Seersucker Day, Thursday, June 11, 2015, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Back row, from left are, Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., McConnell, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss.. Front row, from left are, Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., , Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., and Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Bomb Scare
U.S. Capitol Police gather after a suspicious package was found forcing a partial evacuation of the Dirksen Senate Office Building and of a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill on June 9, 2015.
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Remembering Officers
President Barack Obama (from left), Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson attend the 34rd Annual National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service on Capitol Hill on May 15, 2015.
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Elton John
Singer Elton John (right), founder of the Elton John AIDS Foundation, and Pastor Rick Warren (left) of the Saddleback Church, arrive to testify about global health programs during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill on May 6, 2015.
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Loretta Lynch Testimony
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch (right) appears before the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on May 7, 2015. The committee is hearing testimony on the Justice Department’s budget request for fiscal year 2016.
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Bernie Runs
U.S. Sen. Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.) leaves after a news conference to speak on his agenda for America on Capitol Hill on April 30, 2015, after announcing he would run for U.S. president.
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Japanese Prime Minister
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe waves before he addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on April 29, 2015.
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Subway Smiles
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), second from left, smiles as he rides a Senate subway with a member of the press, left, after a vote April 23, 2015, to confirm Loretta Lynch as the next U.S. attorney general.
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Hotdish Competition
Members of the Minnesota delegation taste each other’s entries during the Minnesota Congressional Delegation Hotdish Competition on Capitol Hill on April 22, 2015. Hotdish is a meal similar to a casserole.
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Justice March
Henry Singleton of New York City holds up a sign as U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) speaks during a rally to mark the finish of March2Justice on April 21, 2015, on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Dozens of marchers took part in an eight-day, 250-mile march from Staten Island, New York, to the nation’s capital to demand congressional intervention to tackle “the national crisis of police violence.”
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Gyrocopter At The Capitol
Capitol Hill police officers and other officials lift a gyrocopter that landed on the U.S. Capitol’s South Lawn, onto a trailer on April 15, 2015. A man identified as Doug Hughes, 61, illegally landed his aircraft on the Capitol lawn, triggering street closures around the building and prompting a police investigation. Hughes is described as a mailman, and a logo appearing to be that of the U.S. Postal Service was visible on the tail fin of the aircraft.
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Ben Affleck
Actor, filmmaker and founder of the Eastern Congo Initiative Ben Affleck testifies before a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs hearing on “Diplomacy, Development, and National Security” on March 26, 2015. His wife, Jennifer Garner, looks on.
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Bill Gates
Bill Gates testifies during the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs hearing on “Diplomacy, Development, and National Security” on March 26, 2015.
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Congressional Gold Medal
Golf legend Jack Nicklaus, center, is presented the Congressional Gold Medal by, from left, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in the Capitol Rotunda on March 24, 2015.
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Spring Cleaning
Code Pink peace activists discuss a letter to Iran’s leaders written by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) outside his office in the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 19, 2015. The group organized a “spring cleaning of Congress.”
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Supreme Women
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) right, prepares to take a picture in her Capitol office with Supreme Court Justices, from left, Elena Kagan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, before a reception on March 18, 2015. The justices were in the Capitol to be honored at Pelosi’s annual Women’s History Month reception in Statuary Hall.
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When Irish Ties Are Smilin’
From left: Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio), President Barack Obama (D) and Irish Prime Minister Taoiseach Enda Kenny depart the annual Friends of Ireland luncheon on Capitol Hill on St. Patrick’s Day 2015.
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Colonial Visit For Marijuana
Dressed in colonial garb, Adam Eidinger and fellow D.C. marijuana advocates visit the office staff of Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) at the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 17, 2015, to protest the congressman’s stand in regard to legalized marijuana in the District of Columbia. Legislative Director Amber Kirby Talley receives a pipe from Eidinger.
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Goldendoodle
Shawna Blair, of the Senate Periodical Press Gallery, holds her dog George Clooney, a 4-month-old Goldendoodle, for Kate Hunter of Bloomberg News to pet in the Capitol’s Senate Press Gallery on March 13, 2015.
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Speaking On Gun Control
Former astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of former congresswoman and handgun violence survivor Gabby Giffords, is joined by Reps. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.), Bob Dold (R-Ill.), Elizabeth Esty (D-Conn.) and Kathleen Rice (D-N.Y.) for a news conference about background checks for gun purchases in the Canon House Office Building on March 4, 2015.
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Giffords’ Voice
Former Congresswoman and handgun violence survivor Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.) speaks during a news conference about background checks for gun purchases at the Canon House Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 4, 2015.
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Netanyahu Speaks
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu waves as he steps to the lectern prior to speaking before a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 3, 2015. House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, left, and Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) applaud.
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Twinning
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) chuckles as she starts a news conference by donning dark glasses, a teasingly sympathetic gesture to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) as he recovers from a serious injury to his right eye, suffered while exercising at his Nevada home during the holidays. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Smooch
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) responds to reporters about the impasse over passing the Homeland Security budget because of Republican efforts to block President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration on Feb. 26, 2015, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington.
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Cool Shades
U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) (left) speaks as Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) listens during a news briefing after the weekly Senate Democratic Policy Luncheon on Feb. 24, 2015. Reid was wearing glasses following a recent eye surgery.
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Space Socks
The socks of former NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin are shown as he testifies before the Senate Space, Science, and Competitiveness Subcommittee on Capitol Hill on Feb. 24, 2015.
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Kerry Plots
Secretary of State John Kerry appears before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs on Feb. 24, 2015, to talk about fiscal year 2016 funding for the State Department.
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Workers Rally
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) attends a rally with labor groups, including the American Federation of Government Employees, in Upper Senate Park to support federal workers and the working class, on Feb. 10, 2015.
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Group Hug
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) gives a group hug to students from the Richard Wright Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., during his National School Choice Forum in the Hart Senate Office Building on Feb. 9, 2015.
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Ukraine In Washington
Patriarch Filaret, head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate, speaks during a press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 5, 2015. Delegates from the Ukrainian Parliament joined members of the House of Representatives to appeal for lethal military aid from the U.S.
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Did You See That?
Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), left, and Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) talk before a news conference in the Capitol’s Senate studio to “respond to the Obama administration’s efforts to lock up millions of acres of the nation’s richest oil and natural gas prospects on the Arctic coastal plain and move to block development of Alaska’s offshore resources” on Jan. 26, 2015.
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That’s A Big Hammer
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), left, reacts as Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) brings out a giant gavel while making remarks during an executive business meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Jan. 22, 2015. Leahy ceremonially passed the gavel to Grassley who has taken up the chairmanship after the Republicans won the majority in the Senate.
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Hello, Mr. President
President Barack Obama, bottom right, is greeted by Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Ala.), center, as he arrives to deliver the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Jan. 20, 2015.
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Just A Joke
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) fools around with colleagues upon arriving for a news conference on Guantanamo detainees in the Senate studio on Jan. 13, 2015.
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Oh Boy!
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) speaks during a press conference on Capitol Hill on Jan. 13, 2015. House Democrats spoke about U.S. President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration.
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Frustration
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Paying Off The Bet
From left, Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) make symbols that spell “Ohio” on Jan. 13, 2015, as the result of a football bet. Ohio State beat the University of Oregon 42-20 in the NCAA national football championship.
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Hats In The Hallways
Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) walks with her family through the Will Rogers Hallway after the swearing-in of the 114th Congress on the House floor on Jan. 6, 2015.
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Baby Face
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) holds Andrea Elena Castro, daughter of Joaquin Castro (D-Texas), second from right, before the 114th Congress was sworn in on the House floor of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2015.
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Snowy First Day
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) leaves a church service on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2015, the first day of the 114th Congress.
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