The Senate was on board. A majority of Americans were in favor of it. And then...nothing.
The clocks will change this weekend—and not for the last time. There was a moment this past spring when the idea of making daylight saving time permanent seemed somewhat plausible: The U.S. Senate passed legislation in March that would have made March 12, 2023, the last time we ever set our clocks forward.drama took up more space in Americans’ heads than feeling groggy twice a year did. The House of Representatives still hasn’t taken up the Senate bill, called the Sunshine Protection Act .
in the early ’70s. Children went to school in the dark, and some got injured or even killed by inattentive drivers. “It’s time to recognize that we may well have made a mistake,” one senator said in January 1974, about a month after the change. A few months later, permanent DST was history. “We haven’t been able to find consensus in the House on this yet,” says U.S. Representative Frank Pallone, whose committee heard testimony last March from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the National Association of Convenience Stores .
In an interesting twist for this very polarized moment in U.S. politics, Pallone says opinions about DST break down by region rather than party. Indeed, 19 red and blue states have resolved or passed laws that would facilitate permanent daylight saving time if the feds act. Adding to the confusion, some sleep experts think standard time, not DST,U.S.
A spokesperson for House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy has not yet replied to a query about whether the House may be more likely to consider Rubio’s bill if the GOP takes the majority. However, McCarthy has previously said he doesn’t think
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