Regional Fights Stall Daylight Saving Time Bill’s Senate Chances

“It’s got a lot of opposition,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) told NOTUS.

Worker inspects clock face

While many issues fall along party lines, the fault lines in the fight over daylight saving vs. standard time are largely geographic. Charlie Riedel/AP

There’s a whole lot of daylight between the House and the Senate — literally.

The House voted last week to make daylight saving time permanent, marking the latest congressional foray into the decades-old battle over whether the U.S. should change the clocks twice a year.

But despite the sizable bipartisan vote, the bill — known as the Sunshine Protection Act — is showing few signs of making headway across the Capitol, with scores of senators representing Midwestern and northern states lining up against it.