Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has reintroduced the Sunshine Protection Act of 2023 for the 118th Congress, proposing an end to changing clocks twice a year.
“This ritual of changing time twice a year is stupid. Locking the clock has overwhelming bipartisan and popular support,” Rubio said in a press release on Thursday. “This Congress, I hope that we can finally get this done.”
A bipartisan group of senators from Oklahoma, Alabama, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Florida, Mississippi, and Oregon all added statements to the release, speaking out about how they believe their constituents would benefit from the permanence of daylight saving time.
In his explanation of the bill, the senator was clear that it would not alter or change time zones, change the number of hours of sunlight, or mandate those who don’t observe daylight saving time currently to do so (pdf)….