It’s officially summer in Washington when bright-eyed interns start outnumbering reporters at press conferences on the Hill.

That was the case on Wednesday when actress and Capitol Hill regular Jennifer Garner joined Sen. Bob Casey, Sen. Barbara Mikulski and Save the Children’s Mark Shriver to talk about early childhood education and child care.

A conservatively dressed Garner peered at the barely old enough to drink crowd from behind the podium and said, “You guys look…young.” Garner declared that the reason the young’uns were “bright, successful, clean, pretty-looking people,” was because of their early education opportunities.

And just in case the camera-toting college crowd had trouble thinking about Garner as anything but a product of Tinseltown, Shriver reminded them that the actress is actually “a daughter of West Virginia” and “understands the problem of rural poverty very well.”

Links:
- June 8th: Capitol Visitor’s Center, Washington, DC

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