Permanent daylight saving time could leave students commuting in the dark, data shows

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Trump pressures senators to pass daylight saving time bill, gives out Sen. Cotton's cellphone number

Trump pressures senators to pass daylight saving time bill, gives out Sen. Cotton's cellphone number

(NEXSTAR) – Nineteen states and those who wish our clocks didn’t “fall back” in November may have seen the light at the end of the tunnel after the House passed a President Trump-backed bill to make daylight saving time permanent earlier this year. 

Any hopes of being able to leave the clocks as they are in the early hours of November may have only been dashed after the Senate adjourned without taking any action on the Sunshine Protection Act.

Some anger may have been passed off to Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), who has frequently spoken out against the bill, after President Trump shared his cellphone number online and told people to tell Cotton “it would be a GREAT Bipartisan WIN.”  

Cotton, however, responded by reiterating his stance that “no one likes changing the clock, me included,” while pointing to previous less-than-successful efforts by the U.S. to observe permanent daylight saving time.

“Arkansans don’t want their kids going to school in the pitch dark, and I’ll........

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