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Year-round daylight saving bill sits in Senate as clocks fall back
Most of the country returns to standard time Sunday while a House-passed permanent daylight saving bill remains stalled, Colorado Newsline reported; ABC News carried senators saying it is unlikely to pass this year.
- New headline Was: “House-passed year-round daylight time bill waits in Senate”
- Our desk updated its story
- South Dakota Searchlight, Utah News Dispatch and 13 more are now reporting this
- New headline Was: “Senate unlikely to make daylight saving time permanent this year”
- Our desk updated its story
4 earlier updates
- ABC News, KTLA and 29 more are now reporting this
- New headline Was: “Senate to weigh year-round daylight saving after clocks fall back Sunday”
- Our desk updated its story
- Still developing
Wire reporting: (AP, via ABC News)
Most of the United States returns to standard time early Sunday, even as a House-passed bill to make daylight saving time year-round remains in the Senate, Colorado Newsline reported1.
President Donald Trump has urged the Senate to pass the change; Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., has said Congress tried permanent daylight saving before and repealed it after late winter sunrises1,2.
ABC News, carrying The Associated Press, said several Republicans, including Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota, oppose the measure because children would go to school in the dark, and that Sen. Todd Young of Indiana called the House bill a non-starter for Senate Republican leaders2.
The AP account said Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, answered no way when asked if the bill would pass soon, and that Majority Leader John Thune has not spoken publicly on this version but voted against similar bills before2.
Florida Sen. Rick Scott and Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey have backed ending the twice-yearly change; Scott signed a Florida law in 2018 that would keep daylight saving year-round if Congress allows it2.
Colorado Newsline and the AP both recalled the 1974-75 winter daylight-saving experiment, which was repealed after public complaints1,2.
An AP-NORC poll last year found 12 percent of adults favored the current twice-yearly system, the AP report said2.
Whether the Senate takes up the House bill after it returns Nov. 9, after the Nov. 3 election, is not settled in either account1,2.
Sources
How it’s being reported
2 sourcesFirst reported by Colorado Newsline
Time for change? Permanent daylight saving time bill awaiting US Senate action
Clock change this weekend and rural senators' opposition
States Newsroom account of Sunday's fallback, the July House vote, and Senate resistance after members return Nov. 9.
Leaves out Named quotes from Sens. Mike Rounds, Todd Young, Bernie Moreno and Rick Scott that appear in the AP account
Senate skeptical about making daylight saving time permanent despite Trump's pressure
Gives this outlet’s account of the story.
Where they agree
- Clocks fall back Sunday for most of the country.
- A House-passed permanent daylight saving bill is stalled in the Senate.
- Trump supports it; Cotton opposes it.