Senate stalls Trump-backed bid to make daylight saving time permanent
What's next: Several Republican senators oppose the House bill, making a vote before year-end unlikely as clocks turn back Sunday.
The Senate is not expected to take up a House-passed bill that would make daylight saving time permanent before the end of the year, undercutting President Donald Trump’s push to end twice-yearly clock changes. As daylight saving time ends Sunday, opponents in the chamber argue permanent daylight time would leave some states with winter sunrises after 9 a.m. Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas has emerged as the most outspoken blocker, and South Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds warned children would head to school in the dark. Trump has pressed Senate Republicans to move the bill, but several lawmakers have called it a nonstarter in the limited time left this session.