After being voted on, the House of Representatives approved a bill backed by President Donald Trump that would make daylight saving time permanent throughout the United States.

With broad bipartisan support, congressmen voted 308-117 in favor of the so-called Sunshine Protection Act.

The opponents of the proposal were 95 Democrats who were joined by 22 Republicans, but this number was insufficient and now it will be the turn of the senators.

The aforementioned law is an initiative presented by Republicans Rick Scott, senator from Florida, and Vern Buchanan, member of the House of Representatives for the 16th congressional district of the “Sunshine State.”

"Floridians and Americans across the country are tired of the biannual daylight saving time, and the evidence clearly shows that permanent daylight saving time can improve public health, reduce traffic accidents, decrease crime, and encourage outdoor activities. Ending daylight saving time is a common-sense reform that will improve the daily lives of millions of Americans," Buchanan wrote in May.

In contrast, his party co-religionist, Tom Cotton, senator from Arkansas, warned that the measure “would delay the winter dawns and that implies modifying the school schedule so as not to expose the children who go to educational centers.

“Children would have to walk to school in total darkness or schools would have to delay the start time of classes,” he said minutes before the vote in the House.

Taking a completely opposite position, Frank Pallone Jr., representative of New Jersey and also the top Democrat on the Energy and Commerce Committee, supported the bill.

Although in 2022, the Senate unanimously approved a similar measure, the proposal stalled in the House of Representatives.

It should be noted that, since World War I, the American government chose to advance its clocks during the summer with the aim of having more light in the afternoon and saving electricity. However, after the end of the war, the energy initiative was reversed.

Later, in 1966, a law was passed through which the time change was practically standardized in the majority of the country, only leaving out places like Hawaii and Arizona, as well as the US territories of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.