Lawmakers Pushing to Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent Year-Round

This is the kind of news that could possibly unify America. National lawmakers are once again trying to pass legislation to make Daylight Saving Time a year-round thing.

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) re-introduced legislation on Tuesday that permanently keeps time "forward."

“I hear from Americans constantly that they are sick and tired of changing their clocks twice a year – it’s an unnecessary, decades-old practice that’s more of an annoyance to families than benefit to them,” Scott said in a statement.

The bill would permanently keep us ahead one hour instead of falling back to standard time at the end of Autumn, making sunrise and sunset come later in the day during winter months too.

And it's something that President-Elect Donald Trump is apparently backing as well.

“I’m excited to have President Trump back in the White House and fully on board to LOCK THE CLOCK so we can get this good bill passed and make this common-sense change that will simplify and benefit the lives of American families,” Scott said.

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Senator Scott's effort does have bipartisan support, including from the following Senators:

• Patty Murray (D-Wash.)
• Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.)
• Rand Paul (R-Ky.)
• Ron Wyden (R-Ore.)
• Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.)
• Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.)
• Ed Markey (D-Mass.)
• Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.)
• James Lankford (R-Okla.)
• Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.)
• Alex Padilla (D-Calif.)
• Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii)
• Tina Smith (D-Minn.)
• Katie Britt (R-Ala.)

“The head-spinning ritual of falling back and springing forward has a very real impact on our economy, our health, and our happiness,” Markey said of the bill.

“Let’s say goodbye to 4 pm winter sunsets and pass the Sunshine Protection Act for permanent Daylight Saving Time — permanently springing forward for brighter evenings year-round.”

Some lawmakers are skeptical of eliminating the clock change. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) is among the GOPs who fall in that category.

“In some states when we went on permanent daylight saving time, it became a safety issue and a very serious one,” he previously told The Hill. “Basically, it required people who get up and go to work in the morning to do so in pitch darkness for quite a bit of the year.”

While we don't know exactly when the law could be passed, it has support in the House as well.

Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) has led the House version of the bill, said he expects the bill to be brought up in a House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing at some point.

Fingers crossed America.