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More comments I've posted elsewhere and want to keep: ( queer, LGBTQ culture, generational changes, covid and the 'new normal', place names, daylight saving time )
A few days ago, the US Senate passed a bill for permanent daylight saving time by unanimous consent, surprising a lot of people. It transpires that the people surprised includes most of the senate.
This is a thing Marco Rubio and Ed Markey have been pushing for the last few years, getting nowhere beyond the occasional "here's something Sen. Markey did" news article. When Rubio asked for unanimous consent on Tuesday, he expected a specific senator, Roger Wicker, to object. He deliberately waited until Wicker was in Washington before asking for unanimous consent, but Wicker says he was saving his energy for more important issues.
As for why none of the other senators objected: apparently they didn't realize this was going to happen. Rubio's office says they sent the usual notices to other sentators, whose staffers may have decided this wasn't worth worrying their bosses about, since it wasn't going anywhere.
We get one delightful quote:
Guy, if you don't know whether you care about something that's part of your life, because you've never taken five minutes to think about it, you don't care.
This is a thing Marco Rubio and Ed Markey have been pushing for the last few years, getting nowhere beyond the occasional "here's something Sen. Markey did" news article. When Rubio asked for unanimous consent on Tuesday, he expected a specific senator, Roger Wicker, to object. He deliberately waited until Wicker was in Washington before asking for unanimous consent, but Wicker says he was saving his energy for more important issues.
As for why none of the other senators objected: apparently they didn't realize this was going to happen. Rubio's office says they sent the usual notices to other sentators, whose staffers may have decided this wasn't worth worrying their bosses about, since it wasn't going anywhere.
We get one delightful quote:
“It’s literally an issue my staff and I had never discussed and they made an assumption that I don’t really care about daylight saving time,” said Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE). “And I don’t know if I do! I’ve never taken five minutes to stop and think about it.”
Guy, if you don't know whether you care about something that's part of your life, because you've never taken five minutes to think about it, you don't care.
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