Posted on 03/15/2022 3:25:46 PM PDT by Libloather
WASHINGTON - The Senate unanimously approved a measure Tuesday that would make daylight saving time permanent across the United States next year.
The bipartisan bill, named the Sunshine Protection Act, would ensure Americans would no longer have to change their clocks twice a year. But the bill still needs approval from the House, and the signature of President Joe Biden, to become law.
“No more switching clocks, more daylight hours to spend outside after school and after work, and more smiles - that is what we get with permanent Daylight Saving Time,” Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts, the original cosponsor of the legislation, said in a statement.
Markey was joined on the chamber floor by senators from both parties as they made the case for how making daylight saving time permanent would have positive effects on public health and the economy and even cut energy consumption.
“Changing the clock twice a year is outdated and unnecessary,” Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida said.
“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Americans want more sunshine and less depression - people in this country, all the way from Seattle to Miami, want the Sunshine Protection Act,” Sen. Patty Murray of Washington added.
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Here Comes The Sun.
Sunshine On My Shoulder, Makes Me Happy
Seasons In The Sun..
& More..
Let me go on
Like I blister in the sun
Let me go on
Big hands, I know you’re the one
This is what the Senate is focused on today?
I’m not familiar with those lyrics.
Who sang that one?
Violent Femmes
“This is what the Senate is focused on today?”
WORTHLESS PIECES OF CRAP
I’m with you, this will cause more global warming, what the heck are they thinking? 🙄
Wow. That brings back memories! 😄
I was on a ferry to France years ago and some dude had a boom box blaring that on cassette.
Sent me back to uni.
Violent Femmes.
Yep, me and my friend cruising to the beach in St. Augustine while we were in college jamming to that cassette.....good times.
Vote ‘em out! “Standard Time” year-round if anything.
Northern WA no like (Sunrise @ 9am):
“This is what the Senate is focused on today?”
Good point.
They like to make up silly names for things too.
“This is what the Senate is focused on today?”
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I don’t mind, It’s not as if were the subject of heated, long drawn-out partisan debate (being it was unanimous). Getting rid of the time silliness is worth it.
Will they compensate us for the hour of time we will lose forever if they do this.
“Changing the clock twice a year is outdated and unnecessary,” Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida said.
...great! Thanks Scott! Now...let’s get back to more boring items like gas prices and drilling. Schmuck.
No one has yet been able to coherently explain to me what is the matter with sun time
As far as doing us a favor about resetting our clocks, if they had never done it in the first place there wouldn’t be a problem. Government creates a problem and then solves it and you get the shaft
Damned idiots
What about Arizona, which exempts itself now from daylight time? Will states still be able to exempt their state?
I think Hawaii also stays on standard time year round?
High noon will no longer be at noon.
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