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Given the sky-high rates of childhood obesity, it's hard to believe that some are pondering overturning the common-sense provisions passed by the previous Congress and being implemented by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to improve children’s access to healthy school meals.

A recent House Education and Workforce subcommittee hearing examined the “regulatory overreach” of the new child nutrition law. But the new law does not extend federal reach, nor is it an unfunded mandate for states and localities.

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