\u201cMillions of Americans will wake up during the winter months in complete darkness with the sun not rising until long after people get up and travel to school or work or have to go about their days,\u201d Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, a Pennsylvania Democrat, said during the House debate.<\/p>\n
Rep. Jim McGovern, a Massachusetts Democrat, voted for the measure but questioned whether it should be a priority when families are struggling with housing, food, utility and health care costs.<\/p>\n
What Polls Show <\/p>\n
Americans appear to favor the later-evening option when asked to choose between permanent daylight saving time and permanent standard time.<\/p>\n
An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll conducted in 2025 found that 56 percent of adults preferred permanent daylight saving time, with less morning light and more evening light. About 4 in 10 preferred permanent standard time, with earlier sunrises and sunsets.<\/p>\n
Congress has debated ending the clock changes for years. The Senate passed a permanent daylight saving time bill in 2022, but the measure stalled in the House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMillions of Americans will wake up during the winter months in complete darkness with the sun not rising…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-244232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}