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House Republicans will try again to extend daylight saving time, seeking to end the nation\u2019s semiannual clock changes \u2014 and deliver on a priority for President Donald Trump.<\/p>

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The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday is set to propose adopting <\/b>the Sunshine Protection Act, committee staff confirmed to The Washington Post. That legislation would allow states to adopt year-round daylight saving time and end the practice of changing clocks.<\/p>\n

\u201cAddressing Daylight Saving Time has been a priority for a number of members for a while now,\u201d Matt VanHyfte, the committee\u2019s communications director, said in a statement. \u201cThe Committee held a hearing<\/a> last November and heard testimony that an extra hour of sun at the end of the day boosts economic activity, and there is evidence that changing time is a highway safety concern, with a surge of traffic fatalities occurring the week following time changes. The Committee led legislation that extended DST in 2007, and is examining ways to further address it now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The GOP-led committee is expected to add the Sunshine Protection Act to a larger legislative package<\/a> that reauthorizes surface transportation programs and vote on it later this week. If Republicans stick together, the measure would advance to the House floor.<\/p>\n

The bill\u2019s backers have a champion in Trump, who has repeatedly called for<\/a> year-round daylight saving time, a move that would require Congress to act.<\/p>\n

But the fight over how Americans set their clocks, and when they must do it, has not broken down along typical party lines.<\/p>\n

Republicans and Democrats, mostly from the coasts, have called for year-round daylight saving time, saying that permanently advancing the clocks one hour and never \u201cfalling back\u201d would allow more people to enjoy sunshine and avoid the frustrations involved with time changes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe evidence is overwhelming and compelling that it\u2019s not good for us to be changing back and forth twice a year,\u201d Rep. Jay Obernolte (R-California) said in the Energy and Commerce Committee\u2019s hearing in November. \u201cThis is an idea whose time has come.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lawmakers from the middle of the country have often balked, however, saying that their residents would disproportionately suffer from late sunrises thanks to the drawing of state lines. In cities such as Detroit and Indianapolis, the sun would rise after 9 a.m. in the middle of the winter.<\/p>\n

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), often a staunch Trump supporter, vowed last year that he would \u201calways oppose\u201d efforts for year-round daylight saving time.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf permanent daylight savings time becomes the law of the land, it will again make winter a dark and dismal time for millions of Americans,\u201d Cotton said in a speech<\/a> on the Senate floor in October.<\/p>\n

The public has long wanted to end time changes, polls show, <\/b>but there is little consensus on what to adopt instead.<\/p>

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Just 12 percent of Americans favor the current system, according to an AP-NORC poll<\/a> conducted in October. But 47 percent oppose it, and the remainder said they were neither opposed or in favor.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s little consensus on what to adopt instead. While 56 percent of Americans say they would prefer year-round daylight saving time, with more light in the evening and less in the morning, 42 percent want year-round standard time, with more light in the morning and less at night, the AP-NORC poll found.<\/p>\n

Some sleep-medicine physicians have panned the idea of daylight saving time altogether and have said<\/a> that staying on year-round standard time would be healthier and more aligned with humans\u2019 natural circadian rhythms.<\/p>\n

States are required to observe daylight saving time, \u201cspringing forward\u201d in March and \u201cfalling back\u201d in November, although Hawaii and part of Arizona have opted out and follow year-round standard time.<\/p>\n

Nineteen states have also approved measures that would allow them to adopt year-round daylight saving time if Congress passed a bill making it permanent nationwide, according to<\/a> the National Conference of State Legislatures.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers in the past four decades have steadily increased<\/a> the length of daylight saving time, and Congress in recent years got halfway to making it year-round.<\/p>\n

Senators in 2022 used a legislative maneuver to seek unanimous consent on the Sunshine Protection Act and swiftly pass the bill, to the surprise of some lawmakers<\/a> who said they hadn\u2019t realized it was up for a vote. The measure stalled in the House, amid persistent complaints from voters and many lawmakers, including some who warned that a similar plan in the 1970s<\/a> had backfired.<\/p>\n

It then seemed the sun had set on Trump\u2019s desire for year-round daylight saving time: The president warned last year that the politics were too difficult<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI assume people would like to have more light later, but some people want to have more light earlier because they don\u2019t want to take their kids to school in the dark,\u201d Trump told reporters in the Oval Office in March 2025. \u201cIt\u2019s very much a 50-50 issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

But some of Trump\u2019s Republican allies, such as Sen. Tommy Tuberville (Alabama), have continued pressing the legislation.<\/p>\n

And the president last month said his sunshine plan could rise again.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re working on a bill now, and we\u2019re going to be doing it,\u201d Trump told the Washington Reporter<\/a>, a conservative-leaning news outlet. \u201cI hope we\u2019re going to do it. We\u2019re pushing it very hard.\u201d<\/p>

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