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Any single senator could have blocked the daylight saving bill from passing but many didn’t know it was even happening. Sen. Rick Scott, a permanent daylight saving time proponent who signed a similar bill into law when he was governor of Florida, said he would have gone to give a speech on the Senate floor if he had known. Asked to recreate his reaction to the news, Sen. Chris Coons issued a series of shocked stammers that is impossible to phonetically translate.

One Senate source with knowledge of the situation said Sen. Tom Cotton vehemently opposes making daylight saving time permanent.

“No comment,” Cotton told BuzzFeed News when asked if he opposed the bill.

The source said that Cotton would have objected to the unanimous consent request except his staff never told him it was happening.

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    3 years ago

    Amazing how this can just... happen. Where was the Senate Parliamentarian? Where was Joe Manchin, standing athwart history and shouting "Stop!"?

    I wonder if this will survive the House, or if it'll get strangled down by a coalition of lump headed Dem committee chairmen, cutting deals for empty promises from their Senate counterparts.

      • Wertheimer [any]
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        3 years ago

        Senator C. Montgomery Burns (R-Springfield), currently hospitalized after being shot by a baby, was unavailable for comment.

      • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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        3 years ago

        It'd actually be great if this got bogged down and groups came out to fight it "The No Sunshine Party" (NSP) diehard MAGA who want to keep the clocks changing as american tradition. Insrumental in getting President Tucker Carlson elected in 2024. "The radical left wants you to stop changing your clocks twice a year AND take your penis away".

        • riley
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          1 year ago

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    • Wertheimer [any]
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      3 years ago

      Sen. Marco Rubio said he initially planned to bring up the daylight saving bill Monday, but Sen. Roger Wicker had placed a hold on it and his flight was delayed. The consent request was bumped to Tuesday so that Wicker could block it, but he never did.

      We just gotta get the parliamentarian to start flying Spirit