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Robert Gibbs:
Hi, good afternoon.

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Happy Monday, and welcome
to First Question.

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Let's take a couple here this
afternoon before we start briefing.

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Jimmy writes, where in the
Constitution does it say

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Washington can decide what
children may or may not eat?

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Well, Jimmy, as you
rightly point out,

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it doesn't say that anywhere
in the Constitution,

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but obviously both state and
federal governments spend money

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each day through the school
lunch program to feed children

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that go to our public schools.

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What the Children's Nutrition
Bill does that the President

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signed today with the First Lady
is provide nutritional standards

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for what our children are
eating in schools each day,

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and to make sure that
they have healthy choices,

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so that years and
years from now,

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we don't see that the school
lunch program basically added to

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the childhood obesity problem
in this country and ultimately

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causes taxpayers to spend
hundreds of millions,

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if not billions of dollars on
health care related to diseases

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caused -- or as a
result of obesity.

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Let's see.

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Mike Kneff writes, assuming tax
cuts -- tax cut extensions pass,

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what's next on the
President's agenda,

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anything before next
Congress is sworn in?

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Well, Mike, thanks
for the question.

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Obviously the President's plate
is still very full at the end

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of this legislative session.

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We've got to pass the nuclear
reduction treaty known as New

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Start to reduce the number of
deployed nuclear weapons that

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both Russia and the United
States has in their -- have in

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their arsenal right now.

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Don't Ask, Don't Tell.

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The repeal of Don't Ask, Don't
Tell is still on Congress' plate,

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and it's our hope that we can get
 that done by the end of the year.

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In addition, the Dream Act and
how we fund government for the

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remainder of this year and next
are also on the Congressional

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agenda and need to get done
before Congress goes home for Christmas.

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Thanks, guys.