[FRIAM] Sunshine protection act

[Prof David West]

It was the Senate (and McConnel) that voted unanimously. 


There are at least 20-25 GOP representatives that are known to be in favor f the change so you will likely not see unanimity, but a large bipartisan support in the house. 

For a decade now, the debate was not t about eliminating the change, but solely about standard versus daylight

On Tue, Mar 15, 2022, at 4:33 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
> On 3/15/22 3:29 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote:
>> Please pass 
>> https://www.cnet.com/culture/senate-unanimously-passes-bill-to-make-daylight-saving-time-permanent/ 
>>
>> I had to google that this wasn't early April fools, or that I was 
>> misreading things.
>
> except they got it backwards?   People who *like* getting up and going 
> to work before the sun comes up should find a job where that is 
> rewarded, or at least accepted... there are many.   But how many folks 
> want to walk into work from the parking lot in the dark at 8AM?
>
> I'm a bit of a purist, wanting the sun to be at "high noon" at noontime 
> and the sunrise and sunset roughly symmetric around that moment.  It is 
> a tiny and ideological thing, so I get it that nobody else cares.
>
> but... whatever... I have very few schedules enforced on me, and those 
> that are are generally not as arbitrary as the MDT/DST differences.
>
>> Now it just needs to get passed the court jester and man who looks and 
>> sounds like a constipated turtle: Mconnel.
>>
>> Gives me a little hope for UBI and a NHS.
>>
> I'd like to think that a unanimous decision like this might help break 
> up some of the corrosion in the system keeping it locked up, but I think 
> the GOP (goofy old party) has too much invested in things that the UBI 
> and NHS would confront.
>
>
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