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"U.S. Sen. Robert Byrd, promoting his life-long passion for the U.S. Constitution, has inserted into a massive federal spending bill a requirement that schools devote at least part of a day each year to teaching about the document," according to the Los Angeles Times. "The provision applies to all schools, elementary through college, that receive federal aid. Education groups worry the provision could be the opening wedge in a campaign by Washington to influence what schools teach." In the Cato Handbook for Congress, David Salisbury, director of Cato's Center for Educational Freedom, writes: "The U.S. Constitution gives Congress no authority...