Congress is back in session, which means back to celebrity sightings on the Hill.
Wednesday brought us actress Jennifer Garner, who as an ambassador for Save the Children was there to introduce the Full Service Community Schools Act.
In the Capitol building, she greeted Save the Children Vice President Mark Shriver, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., and Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., who kicked off his introduction of the actress like an avid reader of gossip rags.
“I know you’re here to see ‘Bennifer.’ I’m not that ‘Ben,’ ” Nelson joked, referring to the uni-name given to Garner and her husband, actor Ben Affleck.
“That was a really bad joke,” Garner said with a laugh before focusing on her speech.
“My mother always said I was raised by the neighborhood,” the mother of two daughters explained in discussing the importance of school programs that utilize neighborhood resources to keep kids out of trouble.
Garner, who grew up in West Virginia and had a mother who was a schoolteacher, said events in her development drew her into becoming an ambassador for the program. This marks her second trip here this year on behalf of the organization.
