Graeme Sloan

Representative Mike Johnson (R-LA) receives a standing ovation from House Republicans after winning the vote for Speaker of the House, in the House Chamber, at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on October 25, 2023. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

Vice President Kamala Harris arrives at the White House for the first time while in office, on Inauguration Day, in Washington, D.C., on January 20, 2021. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

A “Make America Great Again” hat rests on the ground as Capitol Police officers struggle to hold back pro-Trump rioters during the January 6 insurrection, outside the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021. (Graeme Sloan for Bloomberg)

A worker installs razor wire on security fencing near the U.S. Capitol ahead of Presidential Inauguration day, in Washington, D.C., on January 15, 2021. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

Dr. Patrick Jackson, husband of Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, tears up while listening to testimony on the first day of Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for her nomination to the Supreme Court, at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on March 21, 2022. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing, at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on, July 26, 2023. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

CDC Director Robert Redfield, left, elbow bumps Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), Committee Chair, right, after an emergency House Oversight Committee Hearing on the emerging COVID-19 outbreak, at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on March 11, 2020. (Graeme Sloan/Education Week)

President Joe Biden speaks to media after leaving a luncheon with Senate Democrats where they discussed voting rights and filibuster reform, at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on January 13, 2022. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) gestures while speaking to media, at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, April 27, 2022. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

The flag-draped casket of Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD) is carried up the East Front steps of the U.S. Capitol by a military honor guard before lying in state inside Statuary Hall as the first African American lawmaker to do so, in Washington, D.C., on October 24, 2019. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)

Vice President Kamala Harris leads Senators out of the Senate Chamber and across the U.S. Capitol to attend President Biden’s first Joint Address to Congress in the House Chamber as the first female Vice President to do so, in Washington, D.C., on April 28, 2021. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

Vice President Kamala Harris and Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speak behind the dais before Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi’s Address to a Joint Session of Congress in the House Chamber, at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on June 22, 2023. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

The silhouette of Representative Mike Johnson (R-LA), the Speaker-designate of the Republican Conference, is seen during voting for Speaker of the House, in the House Chamber, at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, October 25, 2023. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

Representative Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), the House Minority Leader, embraces Representative Mike Johnson (R-LA) after Johnson’s election to be Speaker of the House, while directing an apparent hand gesture toward the Republican side of the aisle, in the House Chamber, at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on October 25, 2023. (Graeme Sloan on Sipa USA)

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks to members of the press near the Speaker’s office, at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on July 25, 2023. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) speaks to media after introducing a motion to vacate on the House floor, at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on October 2, 2023. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

A Democrat lawmaker reads a list of no-votes during a second round of voting on Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) to be Speaker of the House, in the House Chamber, at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on October 18, 2023. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) speaks to media after a failed vote to be Speaker of the House, at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on October 17, 2023. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

Representative Mike Johnson (R-LA) smiles during voting for his nomination to be Speaker of the House, in the House Chamber, at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on October 25, 2023. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the Senate Minority Leader, walks to the Senate Chamber for a vote, at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on October 25, 2023. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), the Senate Majority Leader, stands during the weekly Senate Leadership press conferences, at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on March 7, 2023. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

Police officers lower the American flag to half staff outside the U.S. Supreme Court, moments after the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the age of 87, in Washington, D.C., on September 18, 2020. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)

Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies during Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for her nomination to the Supreme Court, at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on March 23, 2022. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House Chief Medical Advisor and Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, arrives for a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee Hearing on the Federal response to monkeypox, at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on September 14, 2022. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

SEC Chair Gary Gensler testifies during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the 2024 budget, at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on July 19, 2023. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH), Committee and Subcommittee Chair, speaks during a House Judiciary Select Subcommittee hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on February 9, 2023. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos testifies during a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on February 27, 2020. (Graeme Sloan/Education Week)

The U.S. Capitol Building at dusk, photographed with a motion blur technique, in Washington, D.C., on January 2, 2021. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)

Pro-Trump rioters storm the East Front of the U.S. Capitol during the January 6 insurrection, in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021. (Graeme Sloan for Bloomberg)

A worker in a protective suit cleans hallways near the Senate Chamber the morning after the pro-Trump January 6 insurrection, at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on January 7, 2021. (Graeme Sloan for Bloomberg)

Members of the U.S. National Guard gather in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda after bivouacking in the building overnight, in Washington, D.C., on January 13, 2021. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)

Members of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the Capitol watch a video presentation with images of the pro-Trump insurrection during a hearing, at the U.S. Capitol, on December 19, 2022. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

Representative Bennie Thompson (D-MS), Committee Chair, Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY), Ranking Member, and Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) depart a House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the Capitol hearing, at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on March 28, 2022. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

Vice President Kamala Harris arrives at the Senate to cast a tie-breaking vote, at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on February 28, 2023. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on September 13, 2022. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks to media during a press conference, at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on September 30, 2022. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

Senator John Kennedy (R-LA), center, sits among members of the media while waiting for a press conference on the Supreme Court to begin, at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on July 19, 2023. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the Senate Minority Leader, speaks to media during the weekly Senate Leadership press conference, at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on June 22, 2021. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

Senate staffers wait outside a weekly Senators-only party luncheon, at the U.S. Capitol, on January 19, 2022. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

President Joe Biden arrives at the White House with members of his family for the first time while in office, on Inauguration Day, in Washington, D.C., on January 20, 2021. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

(Left to Right) Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, FBI Director Christopher Wray, CIA Director William Burns (back turned), DIA Director Lieutenant General Scott Berrier, and NSA Director General Paul Nakasone laugh while gathering before a House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on worldwide threats, at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on March 8, 2022. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz sits before a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on Starbucks’ union busting practices begins, at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on March 29, 2023. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen testifies during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on the 2024 budget, at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on March 16, 2023. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies during Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for her nomination to the Supreme Court, at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on March 22, 2022. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett testifies during Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for her nomination to the Supreme Court, at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on October 14, 2020. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)

Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), the Senate Minority Leader, third-left, poses for a photo with a group Senators-elect soon after midterm elections, before meeting privately in the Leader’s office, at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on November 15, 2022. (Graeme Sloan for Sipa USA)