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Marco Rubio introduces bill to keep nation on year-round daylight saving time
Sarasota Herald Tribune ^ | 03/14/2018 | Zac Anderson

Posted on 03/14/2018 11:16:08 AM PDT by GIdget2004

Responding to legislation that cleared the Florida Legislature last week, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio has introduced a pair of bills in Congress, one allowing Florida to stay in daylight saving time year-round and the other putting the entire nation on year-round daylight saving time.

Florida lawmakers passed a bill sponsored by state Sen. Greg Steube, R-Sarasota, that asks Congress to permit the state to maintain daylight saving time all year. Congress currently allows states to opt out of daylight saving time and stay in standard time year-round, but not the other way around.

“Reflecting the will of the Sunshine State, I proudly introduce these bills that would approve Florida’s will and, if made nationally, would also ensure Florida is not out of sync with the rest of the nation,” Rubio said in a press release.

Rubio’s press release includes a list of benefits from staying in daylight saving time year-round, including increased economic activity, fewer robberies, reduced car crashes, increased physical fitness and even a reduction in childhood obesity.

(Excerpt) Read more at heraldtribune.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: daylightsavings; dst; marcorubio; rubio
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To: jazminerose
Rubio’s great legislative accomplishment—sending children to school bus stops in pitch darkness.

It's far easier for local schools to adjust their operating hours as they see fit than to inflict a week of jet lag on 325,000,000 people.
41 posted on 03/14/2018 11:49:30 AM PDT by Colinsky
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To: bmwcyle

Daylight Saving Time is a relic of World War I to conserve coal during wartime. How is this still a thing?


42 posted on 03/14/2018 11:51:31 AM PDT by VA_Gentleman ("Poor Al Gore. Global warming completely debunked via the very internet you invented." -Jon Stewart)
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To: GIdget2004

Yay for Rubio! I hope this one passes.


43 posted on 03/14/2018 11:52:50 AM PDT by al_c (LIBERAL - Laughable Iconsiderate Blaming Entitled Ranting Anti-christian Loudmouth)
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To: jazminerose

They can just change the time school starts. Not rubio’s fault.


44 posted on 03/14/2018 11:52:59 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (I'm not tired of Winning yet! Please, continue on!)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

It’s a big issue here in Florida....................


45 posted on 03/14/2018 11:53:31 AM PDT by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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To: All

Better option Marco...year-round standard time. (Or maybe work on balancing the federal budget?)


46 posted on 03/14/2018 11:55:11 AM PDT by Drago
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To: snarkytart

If he had just put in:

IT WILL AID IN THE FIGHT AGAINST GLOBAL WARMING!

It would pass in a millisecond................


47 posted on 03/14/2018 11:55:51 AM PDT by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Moms all over were screaming about sending their kids to school in the dark.

What time were they sending them to school ... 6:30?! There's plenty of daylight at 7:00am.

48 posted on 03/14/2018 11:56:09 AM PDT by al_c (LIBERAL - Laughable Iconsiderate Blaming Entitled Ranting Anti-christian Loudmouth)
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To: chris37
I want longer days all year round.

I'm with you on this. You should run for Congress on this platform.

49 posted on 03/14/2018 11:57:15 AM PDT by Rio (I was deplorable when deplorable wasn't cool.)
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To: GIdget2004

Which is the ACTUAL correct time? PDT or PST? EDT or EST?


50 posted on 03/14/2018 11:58:11 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perhaps we should care less about who we may offend and care more about who we may inspire.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Yep. Kindergartners standing in the dark waiting for the bus while people are trying to drive to work while eating, putting on makeup, talking or texting.. Yeah, that won’t be a problem. No one will get run over. Sure....


51 posted on 03/14/2018 11:58:44 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: GIdget2004
Keep it on standard time all year round so that the sun is highest at noon and the full moon rises at 6:00pm.

If he wants to really mess with things, then change the yearly cycle to start on the March equinox, not January first.

-PJ

52 posted on 03/14/2018 12:01:09 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: chris37

“I want longer days all year round.”


The days aren’t longer,neither is the daylight longer.

Some people like the daylight earlier in the morning.

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53 posted on 03/14/2018 12:01:14 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Rio

Ack! No!

I only want to run with German Shepherds, da heck wit’ running for congress. Those guys suck!


54 posted on 03/14/2018 12:01:49 PM PDT by chris37 (Laws donÂ’t prevent criminals from committing crimes. Guns prevent criminals from committing crimes.)
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To: Architect of Avalon

“Fall Back one more time, in 2018, and stay there permanently nationwide.”

My thought, too. Then change all business and school hours to an hour earlier, giving the same exact result as DST.

But, that sure wouldn’t fly with snowflakes. Go to school WHEN?! Go to work WHEN?! Get up WHEN?! Go to bed WHEN?!


55 posted on 03/14/2018 12:02:27 PM PDT by polymuser (Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chestern)
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To: MrChips


56 posted on 03/14/2018 12:03:13 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: GIdget2004

I’d rather we keep standard time year-round. There will still more light at the end of the day in the summer months as per nature.


57 posted on 03/14/2018 12:05:20 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: GIdget2004

good idea, tired of this switching hours.


58 posted on 03/14/2018 12:06:29 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: al_c

“Social engineering” should never be allowed for more than 4 hours a day so children learn agency and independence which demands free association and free play.......which is wiped out to destroy thinking for self, and create little programmed “bots’ for the State.....same system which created the Hitler Youth and Brownshirts—dependent order-takers.

Schools have to dump their evil unconstitutional Dept. of Brainwahsing into Satanism and reestablish the only worldview that is consistent with our Constitution and Natural Law (common sense). Classical Christian curricula only since it is the only one consitutent with Natural law, and Free Will and Individual Natural Rights from God. All collective systems of slavery need to be vilified—the Truth (God) and science (natural Law) must be presented in all curricula. For Rule of Law we need Higher Laws—God’s Law and anything else is Rule of Man (completely unconstitutional and irrational) and the promotion of satanism (vice).

Justice is the Queen of Virtue (only Christian Virtue) and only public virtue can be promoted in all “just Law” the only constitutional kind. We need all evil law repealed starting with the Federal Reserve Act and the Marxist Income Tax Act—the system, along with Foundations, used for money laundering and to take over all our institutions, churches and MSM.


59 posted on 03/14/2018 12:08:26 PM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: fortheDeclaration
good idea, tired of this switching hours.

Plus it costs a fortune to have to change smoke alarm batteries every time change :)

60 posted on 03/14/2018 12:09:35 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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