{"id":15168,"date":"2025-11-02T17:20:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T17:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cotton-blocks-trump-backed-effort-to-make-daylight-saving-time-permanent\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T17:20:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T17:20:19","slug":"cotton-blocks-trump-backed-effort-to-make-daylight-saving-time-permanent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/cotton-blocks-trump-backed-effort-to-make-daylight-saving-time-permanent\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotton blocks Trump-backed effort to make daylight saving time permanent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Tom Cotton wasn&rsquo;t fast enough in 2022 to block Senate passage of legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent. Three years later, he wasn&rsquo;t about to repeat that same mistake. The Arkansas Republican was on hand Tuesday afternoon to thwart a bipartisan effort on the chamber floor to pass a bill that would put an end to changing the clocks twice a year&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/10\/28\/congress\/cotton-blocks-bill-to-stop-changing-clocks-00626466\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Tom Cotton wasn&rsquo;t fast enough in 2022 to block Senate passage of legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent. Three years later, he wasn&rsquo;t about to repeat that same mistake. The Arkansas Republican was on hand Tuesday afternoon to thwart a bipartisan effort on the chamber floor to pass a bill that would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}