Congress ‘One Step Closer’ To Making Daylight Saving Time Permanent, President Trump Weighs In

Although it’s an issue a majority of Americans would like to remedy, lawmakers have been slow-walking legislation to abolish the twice-a-year time changes that impact life in all but a few places across the United States.

This week, however, a bill aiming to make Daylight Saving Time the permanent standard advanced in Congress, and its proponents are celebrating it as a step in the right direction. 

Here’s what The Hill reported: 

Last year, Sen. Rick Scott and Rep. Vern Buchanan, both Republicans from Florida, reintroduced the Sunshine Protection Act, previously championed by now-Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Scott’s bill received bipartisan support and a committee hearing, and even advanced out of committee. The Senate tried to fast-track its version last year, only for the effort