In May, the House Energy and Commerce Committee ‌voted 48-1 in favor of the Sunshine Protection Act. The U.S. Senate voted unanimously in March 2022 to make daylight saving time permanent but the House never took up the measure in the face ​of opposition. The proposal the House will consider next week would allow states ​to opt out.

    • jeffw@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Why? There is literally no argument for changing. It was proposed originally in a work of SATIRE by Benjamin Franklin. The US adopted a policy out of a satirical work