Congressional Hits and Misses: Week of June 15, 2015 – Roll Call

Video

Congressional Hits and Misses: Week of June 15, 2015

By JM Rieger

Posted June 18, 2015 at 10:25pm

[jwp-video n=”1″]

Lawmakers spent a busy week on the Hill mispronouncing the names of NBA players, “beating dead donkeys” and getting kicked out of private briefings.

Recent Stories

Peak bloom cherry blossoms frame the Capitol dome on the first full day of spring in 2024.

Spring breakers — Congressional Hits and Misses

Members of the House Freedom Caucus conduct a news conference to say they will not support the DHS funding bill in its current form, in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall on Friday.

House GOP rejects bipartisan Senate bill to end DHS shutdown

House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Sam Graves, R-Mo., is the latest senior House Republican to announce his departure.

Transportation Chair Graves will retire after 26 years in House

Sources: White House to propose 20 percent cut to NIH funding

President Donald Trump attends the annual Friends of Ireland luncheon at the Capitol on March 17. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

‘Impulsive and emotional’: Trump tosses traditional wartime presidency blueprint

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks to reporters in the Capitol on Tuesday as he returns from the Senate floor to his office.

Photos of the week | March 23-27, 2026