Frank Pallone, the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, told The Hill newspaper in July. And it seems unlikely to do so in the lame-duck session that will follow the next week’s midterm elections. And one has to ask themselves after a while why do we keep doing it?”Īnd yet, all these months later – and with the clocks set to be turned back – the Democratic-led House has not picked up the measure. “Just this past weekend, we all went through that biannual ritual of changing the clock back and forth and the disruption that comes with it. “You’ll see it’s an eclectic collection of members of the United States Senate in favor of what we’ve just done here in the Senate, and that’s to pass a bill to make Daylight Savings Time permanent,” Florida Republican Sen.

On Sunday morning, we all will begrudgingly turn our clocks back an hour – and in doing so, relegate ourselves to a winter of darkness.īack in March, the Senate passed a bill to make Daylight Saving Time permanent, meaning that there would be no reverting back to “standard time” from early November through mid-March.