Wire reporting: (AP, via ABC News)

Most of the United States is set to return to standard time at 2 a.m. local time Sunday while a House-passed bill to keep daylight saving time year-round remains in the Senate, Georgia Recorder reported¹.

Congress.gov records that H.R. 139, the Sunshine Protection Act of 2025, sponsored by Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., passed the House 308-117 on July 14, 2026, and was received in the Senate the next day and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation². Georgia Recorder, describing the House vote, said 193 Republicans, 114 Democrats and one independent voted yes¹.

The bill would make daylight saving time the permanent standard, with states that already exempt areas able to choose the standard for those areas, according to Congress.gov².

Georgia Recorder said House Energy and Commerce ranking member Frank Pallone, D-N.J., argued more evening light would help tourism, restaurants and outdoor leisure¹. Rep. Madeleine Dean, D-Pa., said morning light helps set the body's clock, according to the same account¹.

President Donald Trump has pressed the Senate to act. The Hill reported he posted Sen. Tom Cotton's cellphone number while urging passage³. Georgia Recorder also said Trump criticized Cotton and apparently gave out the senator's cell number¹.

Cotton, R-Ark., said Congress has enacted permanent daylight time before and later repealed it after late winter sunrises, Georgia Recorder reported¹. He said some Arkansas towns would start school before sunrise for months if the change took effect¹.

The Hill quoted Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., as saying there is more opposition than the president realizes, citing safety concerns in northern and rural states where children board buses early³. Thune, who is from South Dakota, told reporters he voted against the measure in committee³.

The Hill reported Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., told Politico there is no clear path forward or consensus yet³. Georgia Recorder said Thune told reporters this summer it remains to be seen whether 60 senators would support the measure¹.

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., told The Hill he is working for a vote in the lame-duck session³. ABC News carried an Associated Press report that other Senate Republicans also expect the measure to stall this year⁴.

Georgia Recorder said senators return Nov. 9 with 22 session days left this year and that a 1970s winter daylight-saving experiment proved unpopular because of dark school openings¹. Whether the Senate schedules a vote after the Nov. 3 election is not settled in these accounts^1,3.