The Senate Surprised Itself By Passing A Bill To Make Daylight Saving Time Permanent
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🗓️ 18 March 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
They also voted to make Daylight Saving Time permanent, but only because some senators who were opposed reportedly didn't know the vote was happening.
And Black Americans are mobilizing in support of Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court nomination. If confirmed, she would be the first Black woman on the high court. Hearings begin next week.
This episode: White House correspondent Asma Khalid, congressional correspondent Susan Davis, acting congressional correspondent Deirdre Walsh, politics and racial justice correspondent Juana Summers.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey NPR, this is Thomas Lyons calling from Provincetown, Massachusetts. |
| 0:04.4 | I'm currently taking a gap year and writing for the local, unchained, and sometimes labeled |
| 0:09.5 | feisty newspaper, the Provincetown Independent. This podcast was recorded at... |
| 0:14.8 | 106 PM Eastern on Friday, March 18th. |
| 0:19.3 | Things may have changed by the time you hear it, but I'll almost certainly still be waiting for |
| 0:23.3 | my sources to return my calls. Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:30.9 | I'm proud to report that some things never change as a journalist. I feel your pain. |
| 0:37.2 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast. I'm Asma Khaled, I cover the White House. |
| 0:41.7 | Susan Davis, I cover Congress. And I'm Deirdre Walsh, I also cover Congress. |
| 0:45.8 | And I'm glad that both of you guys are on today with us because Congress has been rather |
| 0:50.2 | busy lately, passing a bunch of legislation that had seemed like it was a long time coming, |
| 0:54.7 | but wasn't actually going anywhere. And I'm hoping that both of you can help us all understand |
| 0:59.1 | what the impetus was for getting some of these ideas through, you know, at this particular moment. |
| 1:04.2 | Last week, Congress passed a trillion plus dollar budget, and we talked about that on this weekly |
| 1:08.9 | roundup last Friday, but within that big budget package, Congress tucked in a couple of other |
| 1:14.4 | priorities, including something that I don't believe we talked about at that time, which was |
| 1:17.7 | the Violence Against Women Act. And I want to begin our conversation today by just talking |
| 1:22.4 | a little bit more about that. Sue, can you remind us what that legislation does and how it was in |
| 1:27.4 | fact allowed to expire? Sure, the Violence Against Women Act was first enacted in the Clinton |
| 1:32.8 | administration, and one of its champions was then Senator Joe Biden. It essentially provides |
| 1:39.1 | the entire legal framework for which we prosecute domestic and sexual abuse crimes against women. |
| 1:46.6 | It also provides resources and support systems for the victims of domestic abuse. |
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