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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.
It was designed to reassure Virginia that slavery would never be banned because the system was too obstructive in return for them paying a higher proportion of revolutionary war debt
Article I: Nothing Will Fundamentally Change
you get it. Ironically if the confederacy had never seceeded they would have been able to block all anti slavery legislature. Fortunately living in the dumbest timeline came in handy for once
Not really, the abolitionist all knew that the system would never ban slavery, if it wasn't for the civil war there would have been a communist revolution by 1880