The U.S.Senate is on the clock.
In a matter of speaking.Or ticking.The House of Representatives approved a bill earlier this year to thrust the nation onto permanent Daylight Saving Time.
In other words, the House voted to ditch the twice-a-year ritual of springing forward and falling back.Now it’s up to the Senate to sync up."Around the country, people are going to be excited because they don’t have to go back and forth," opined Sen.
Rick Scott, R-Fla., one of the biggest advocates of shifting to year-round Daylight Saving Time.Under this temporal regime, Florida and many southern states would benefit from "more" sun later in the afternoon and evening in the winter.HOUSE PASSES DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME REFORM AS TRUMP SIGNALS SUPPORT FOR ENDING CLOCK CHANGESen.Rick Scott, R-Fla., said that Senate Democrats wouldn't take the shutdown seriously until flight delays and cancellations started to stack up.
(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)Scott isn’t the only one who says time should expire for Daylight Saving Time."People are sick and tired of having to change their clocks twice a year.It is foolish, inconvenient and, in some cases, very costly.
For Cities and States with Watchtowers, and hard to reach places, it costs Millions of Dollars," declared President Donald Trump in a post on his social media site Truth Social.It’s unclear whether Trump was trying to reach voters with allegiances to Jimi Hendrix or Bob Dylan when writing about "Watchtowers." But if the President has his way, the times won’t be "A Changin’," later this fall.We’d be welded to Daylight Saving Time.President Trump continued."This is an issue that Republicans, Democrats, and Independents can unite behind.
I am asking Republican Senators to release their holds, and allow the hotline to clear on the Republican side.LET’S PASS THE SUNSHINE PROTECTION ACT, ASAP," he wrote.Let’s dial things back a bit here and dissect the title of this bill: "The Sunshine Protection Act...