SCOOP: Should We Ditch Daylight Saving Time?
SmartHERNews
Jenna Lee
4.9 • 664 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Congress & state legislature eye new laws to keep (or stop) daylight saving time. (Yes, you can also say "daylights savings" ... Merriam-Webster says it's ok)
Plus ~ What Pres. Trump really said about our chances of recession; what to know about your $20 million in taxpayer money for Sesame Street in the Middle East; an important constitutional caveat when it comes to the Department of Education. And five years since the World Health Organization declared a pandemic for COVID-19.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Scoop, where you get the Scoop on this week's news. My name is Jenna, and this is |
| 0:06.9 | Smarter News. Well, hi, everybody. I'm really enjoying your live discussion on the chat as we |
| 0:19.1 | warm up to get ready for Scoop. First of all, it's great to see you. |
| 0:22.2 | Welcome to Scoop a little bit of deeper dive and some of our big topics so that you could get the |
| 0:29.1 | news and then forget it for a second and go on living your life. That's what we want to do. |
| 0:33.6 | We want to free up your time. And that's what Scoop is really about. But Scoop is also about the live community that we've been able to develop here through sort of news. And I love |
| 0:41.6 | just having this time to visit with you. I'm seeing a robust conversation between all of you |
| 0:47.5 | about daylight savings time. So of course, I had to hop online really fast because I was curious |
| 0:52.0 | about something, curiosity over commentary works every time, |
| 0:55.3 | about daylight savings time, and the movement in Congress to make it permanent. So there's also |
| 1:02.3 | debate in that. So let's just back way up. Our current Secretary of State, Marker Rubio, was once a |
| 1:07.2 | senator in Florida. And he really took the lead on the Sunshine Protection Act. |
| 1:12.5 | And he was one of the lawmakers that would repeatedly put forward this legislation for Congress to |
| 1:18.0 | consider. And Congress repeatedly just like wouldn't consider it. It would never move anywhere |
| 1:22.8 | because it would take an act of Congress to change the nation's time to daylight savings time. |
| 1:30.6 | And that in and of itself is a debate because some don't believe daylight savings time should be permanent. |
| 1:35.3 | Some believe standard time should be permanent. |
| 1:37.9 | I'm laughing because it's, you know, we just want to agree on one thing, guys, and that's the clock. |
| 1:42.9 | We're just trying to agree on the clock and how much sunshine we should get or not get or whatever. It has a really |
| 1:48.9 | interesting backstory that we found, by the way, too, this idea of making sure that our time |
| 1:54.2 | zones match. There was a time in our country where clearly what's 9 o'clock in the morning, East Coast time, looks |
| 2:02.1 | a different West Coast time. But as trains were starting to move across the country and delivery |
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