The Senate passed a bill Tuesday from Marco Rubio making daylight savings time permanent.
This from therightscoop.com.
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) obviously is euphoric over the bill.
Normally I wouldn’t look twice at something like this because it would go nowhere.
But the Senate passed it by unanimous consent, meaning no one objected, which is a strong sign it could pass the House.
And if it passes the House by unanimous consent or even by a super majority vote, then Joe Biden no longer matters.
Because even if he were to veto it, they could just override his veto easily.
Passed by Unanimous Consent, S.623: Sunshine Protection Act, as amended (to make Daylight Saving Time permanent) @SenRubioPress / @SenWhitehouse / others
— Senate Cloakroom (@SenateCloakroom) March 15, 2022
Senate passes bill by unanimous consent to make Daylight Saving Time permanent.
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) seems excited about it. pic.twitter.com/WL44FBQAGf
— The Recount (@therecount) March 15, 2022
Here’s the full video from Rubio:
Today we passed out of the Senate my bill to make Daylight Savings Time permanent
Now it’s up to the House to help us #LockTheClock
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) March 15, 2022
If the bill does pass the House, it won’t be implemented until next year according to Rubio:
Don't get too excited though, Rubio says implementation is delayed until 2023 to allow for airlines and other companies to have time to build out
— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) March 15, 2022
Final thoughts, a mixed bag: The world has multiple crisis situations occurring simultaneously and the U.S. Senate is occupying their time with the issue of Daylight Savings Time. Is this a positive or a negative?
Perhaps this is a sign of progress (or the opposite) that congress is able to agree on something.
Perhaps, also, this may be considered as a positive change for all those people/families with multiple clocks throughout the home—every one of them requiring to be sprung forward in the spring and turned back in the fall.
Finally, a shout out to those whose lives are mere minimally affected by daylight savings time. Having lived several years on a dairy farm, I know first-hand the cows don’t allow their milking schedule to be altered. And certain states—parts of Indiana, for example—refuse to change.
How will a permanent daylight savings time affect the Amish and other ethnic and religious minorities. And will the milk cows eventually succumb to the permanency of the change?