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First lady bucks GOP on school lunch rules

By Darlene Superville
Published July 5, 2014 9:42pm ET
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First lady bucks GOP on school lunch rules
FILE - This May 27, 2014 file photo shows first lady Michelle Obama, with Eric Goldstein, chief executive officer, Office of School Support Services, New York City Department of Education, left, and Donna Martin, School Nutrition Program, Burke County Board of Education, in Georgia, during a discussion with school leaders and experts on school nutrition in an event in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. Obama stressed the importance of students, parents, school officials, community leaders, and health advocates coming together to protect and advance the progress that has been made in schools across our country. She is in the biggest fight of her tenure as she pushes back against a House Republican effort to soften a key component of the anti-childhood obesity effort at the center of her legacy. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File) | Pablo Martinez Monsivais

WASHINGTON (AP) — First ladies typically avoid getting into public scraps, but Michelle Obama has jumped into perhaps her biggest battle yet.

She’s fighting a House Republican effort to soften a central part of her prized anti-childhood obesity campaign and says she’s ready “to fight until the bitter end.”

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