Except it withholds funds. That is rather significant to a local school district. At the moment, I suppose we can pass a sense-of-the-Senate resolution that says to the local school district, ``Do not violate the Constitution. If the Constitution allows certain types of prayer, you must allow it, period.'' That would be oratory language.
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