Posted on 03/17/2022 7:00:36 PM PDT by algore
WASHINGTON — The Senate’s unanimous passage of a bill to make daylight saving time permanent stunned many Americans, not least of which the senators themselves.
In a twist the Founding Fathers likely did not anticipate, quirky Senate conventions and a decision by staff in Sen. Tom Cotton’s office may result in an overhaul in the nation’s time zones.
Reporters and politicos were caught off guard Tuesday afternoon when the Sunshine Protection Act sailed through the Senate without issue, with no senators speaking up to object to it passing by unanimous consent. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, serving as Senate chair overseeing the motion at the time, broke composure, burst into a grin, and whispered, “Yes!”
“I was surprised that someone didn’t object,” she told BuzzFeed News the next day, while noting that Arizona does not change its clocks, “because we’re smart.”
Any single senator could have blocked the daylight saving bill from passing but many didn’t know it was even happening. Sen. Rick Scott, a permanent daylight saving time proponent who signed a similar bill into law when he was governor of Florida, said he would have gone to give a speech on the Senate floor if he had known. Asked to re-create his reaction to the news, Sen. Chris Coons issued a series of shocked stammers that is impossible to phonetically translate.
One Senate source with knowledge of the situation said Sen. Tom Cotton vehemently opposes making daylight saving time permanent.
“No comment,” Cotton told BuzzFeed News when asked if he opposed the bill.
The source said that Cotton would have objected to the unanimous consent request, but his staff never told him it was happening.
This is not how the Senate usually works. Passing a bill through the chamber is, by design, a long and painful process that usually results in shattered dreams and bitter failure.
Typically, to pass a bill you need to first clear it through a Senate committee, and then you need to ask the Senate majority leader to put it to a vote.
They will tell you no because Senate floor time is in high demand and they are too busy confirming judges and keeping the government funded to spend hours on your bill.
In the lucky event that your bill does move forward, you need to win over at least 60 of 100 senators, then go through hours of debate and multiple rounds of votes Passing a bill through the House is generally a lot easier than the Senate, but there is still an opportunity for standard time proponents — or clock-changing enthusiasts — to block the legislation.
One person said by a Senate source to be pushing the House to do exactly that is Tom Cotton.
There's obviously no other serious problems to worry about, which I'm thankful for.
With “Standard Time” running barely five months (early November to early March) it is clear that “Daylight Savings Time” has become the new standard.
Don’t like early morning darkness? Run your school or business on a one hour delay during the winter.
We have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it.
Sorta tells us what these jerks know what they’re voting on. Huh? Pathetic.
In fact, I would propose to move the clocks 10 minutes forward for six months and then 10 minutes backwards for the next six months so that we get or lose our Daylight Savings more gradually.
“Don’t like early morning darkness? Run your school or business on a one hour delay during the winter.”
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Parents might have an issue with that.
Manifestly not.
Our founding fathers were brilliant and wrote the Constitution assuming a population of reasonable intelligence and good morals.
They did not allow for the left.
Does anyone really respect either house of critters?
Really?
Whan will the tipping point law occur? When we tell them to shove it up their rear end.
Forgot to add that I fully support ending DST - for either all standard time or all DST. What I do not support is worthless vermin like Pelosi, who tells her collection of critters that they have to vote before reading. Actually, given that few of them appear capable of understanding multi-syllable words, and cannot follow more than a one-step chain of logic, perhaps she’s correct.
I for one don’t really care if it’s daylight time or standard time as long as it’s one or the other but not both. The only disgusting thing about daylight time is that is a creation of Woodrow Wilson, a demented democrat pig and the worst President in the history of the Republic.
What I like even less is how quickly this was done. Our government is supposed to be a deliberative body. I don't like the precedence this sets about changing laws on a whim.
It’s a latitude Issue.
Not as big a deal in Ariz. as in Alaska or North Dakota.
I hate daylight savings time. It doesn’t save any daylight. Now when we get up in the wintertime, it will seem like the middle of the night.
So I guess it goes without saying that they didn’t read the bill before they voted on it.
It took a republican to bring unity. It isn’t much right now, but it is unity. It’s a start.
Now, with more daylight, the sun will cause more global warming, and the climate change hoaxers will be trying even harder to stop fossil fuels. ;)
Or, they could have the sun shine less brightly during the summer months. ;)
I would propose to move the clocks 10 minutes forward for six months and then 10 minutes backwards for the next six months so that we get or lose our Daylight Savings more gradually.
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I would start doing what I need to do 10 minutes earlier instead of changing the time.
that position has now been taken by biden
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