Now that Americans have set their clocks to 'spring forward' one hour, some lawmakers are hoping that the country will never have to switch back to standard time ever again.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and fellow Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott, as well as bipartisan colleagues from Oklahoma, Missouri, Rhode Island, Oregon, Mississippi and Massachusetts, reintroduced the bill after its repeated failure to make it to the president's desk."If the House follows the lead of the Senate, we can really make this happen. No more changing clocks. No more dark afternoons in the winter. No more losing an hour of sleep every spring.
Rubio's statement said the change could bring improvements, including shrinking seasonal depression, reducing car accidents by better aligning daylight hours with commuting times, cutting down on robberies by adding more daylight hours and lowering childhood obesity by adding more time for physical fitness.
In 2005, President George W. Bush signed an energy policy bill that would extend daylight saving time by four weeks, beginning on the second Sunday of March, according to NASA. That law went into effect in 2007.
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