Update 6-25: See the service event and congressional luau here.
In Michelle Obama style, she suggests turning the annual White House picnic into a service event. She spoke yesterday to congressional spouses at their annual first lady's luncheon.First lady Michelle Obama hopes to turn an annual White House picnic for members of Congress into a community service event for lawmakers and their families.....
The annual Congressional Picnic is scheduled for June 25. The event provides a relaxed environment where lawmakers, the president and administration officials can set aside their policy differences and socialize over food and music on the South Lawn.
"We can bring our husbands and our wives, our children and our grandchildren together as we did yesterday and rally around a common cause," Mrs. Obama said during her luncheon speech at a hotel. "This would be a powerful message that we could send to people around the country, that they saw all of our families come together here in D.C." MSNBC
