Paul Simon was back on the Hill on Wednesday to stump for his pet issue: health insurance for kids.
“Paul Simon is a man, we’ve learned, that can be very passionate in his words and music,” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., before making several bad puns based on Simon’s music and professing his as well as his wife’s love for the singer.
Reid said Simon was instrumental in creating the current child health care laws, crediting his passion and way with words.
Simon, who is the co-founder of the Children’s Health Fund, said that if he were in Washington to sing about children’s health care, he would sing, “Poor kids can’t vote, neither can they afford to hire lobbyists to plead their case.” (Something tells us it won’t be his next hit.)
“Let’s cut out the political stuff and pass this legislation that is very much needed,” Simon said.
