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Michelle Obama Backs Child Nutrition Bill
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FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA DOESN’T USUALLY WEIGH IN ON PENDING LEGISLATION BUT SHE HAS JUST ISSUED A STATEMENT ABOUT A BILL THAT COULD IMPACT HER SIGNATURE ISSUE: CHILDHOOD OBESITY.
July 19
Michelle Obama Backs Child Nutrition Bill
USA Today
by Mimi Hall
July 15, 2010
Obama is praising passage in a House committee of a massive new Child Nutrition Reauthorization Bill. Here’s her statement:
“I congratulate Chairman Miller and the House Education and Labor Committee on the successful bipartisan passage of a child nutrition reauthorization bill out of the Committee today. This important legislation will combat hunger and provide millions of schoolchildren with access to healthier meals, a critical step in the battle against childhood obesity. I urge both the House and Senate to take their child nutrition bills to the floor and pass them without delay. The President looks forward to signing a final bill this year, so that we can make significant progress in improving the nutrition and health of children across our nation.”
This marks the first time the first lady has issued a formal statement responding to, and urging further, legislative action, says her spokeswoman, Katie McCormick-Lelyveld. Such statements are common from her husband and other West Wing officials.
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