{"id":8167,"date":"2025-04-11T04:21:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T04:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ted-cruz-senate-panel-mulls-permanent-daylight-saving-time-2\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T04:21:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T04:21:41","slug":"ted-cruz-senate-panel-mulls-permanent-daylight-saving-time-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/ted-cruz-senate-panel-mulls-permanent-daylight-saving-time-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz, Senate panel mulls permanent daylight saving time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senators are wading into the thorny issue of whether to &#8220;lock the clock&#8221; &mdash; that is, end the practice of changing the time twice a year to account for the shifting seasons. At a hearing Thursday, Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz said there was general consensus among his colleagues that Americans should stop changing the clocks by adopting permanent daylight saving time &mdash; which makes it light later in the evening and later in the morning &mdash; or permanent standard time&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/04\/10\/congress\/should-we-lock-the-clock-00283777\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators are wading into the thorny issue of whether to &#8220;lock the clock&#8221; &mdash; that is, end the practice of changing the time twice a year to account for the shifting seasons. At a hearing Thursday, Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz said there was general consensus among his colleagues that Americans should stop changing the [&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-8167","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\/8167","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=8167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}