Michelle Obama revs up campaign against childhood obesity

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Who’s that meeting with members of the Cabinet and Congress?

It’s Michelle Obama, revving up for her campaign against childhood obesity.

The first lady met Tuesday at the White House with six legislators and three Cabinet members who have a big role in health policy. Mrs. Obama says she wants to get families, schools, businesses and governments working together on a problem that she says is “imminently solvable.”

Mrs. Obama isn’t the first first lady to get involved in policy. Rosalynn Carter sat in on President Carter’s Cabinet meetings. And Hillary Rodham Clinton was the architect of President Clinton’s failed attempt to enact a major health reform package in the 1990s.

-- Associated Press