Grammy fever: D.C. newsmakers pick their favorite songs
After asking them about everything from military hardware to presidential politics, Paste BN's Capital Download has been posing a final question to newsmakers: What's your favorite song?
As the Grammy Awards approach Sunday night, we're releasing a compilation of what they told us. Their choices range from the sacred — Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn recited the lyrics of "Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing" — to the sensational. Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James had a decidedly current pick, Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off."
But only some of the officials on the weekly video newsmaker series then were willing to sing the song they named. Former Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius was game, running through a few lines of 'The Times, They Are A'Changing."
"That's much more melodic than Bob Dylan would have ever sung it," she jokes.
Listen here to the favorite songs of everyone from Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.