{"id":203377,"date":"2026-07-15T15:40:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T22:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=203377"},"modified":"2026-07-15T15:40:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T22:40:44","slug":"hr-139-sunshine-protection-act-aye-tom-mcclintock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=203377","title":{"rendered":"HR 139 Sunshine Protection Act: AYE ~ Tom McClintock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC &#8211; Congressman McClintock voted AYE on the House Floor on HR 139 \u2013 The Sunshine Protection Act, and he issued the following vote note statement on the bill:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/McClintockBan.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-158165\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/McClintockBan.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/McClintockBan.png 820w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/McClintockBan-300x114.png 300w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/McClintockBan-768x292.png 768w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/McClintockBan-570x217.png 570w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/McClintockBan-701x267.png 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This bill ends the pointless time change that has plagued our country for more than a century, and makes Daylight Savings Time permanent.<\/p>\n<p>I would much prefer to see us shift to Standard Time, which centers noon at the sun\u2019s apex \u2013 thus avoiding driving to work or school in the dark during winter months. Daylight Time was once tried and abandoned for this reason.<\/p>\n<p>But whether Daylight or Standard Time, getting rid of the annoying \u201cspring ahead fall back\u201d nonsense is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p># # #<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC &#8211; Congressman McClintock voted AYE on the House Floor on HR 139 \u2013 The Sunshine Protection Act, and he issued the following vote note statement on the bill: This bill ends the pointless time change that has plagued our country for more than a century, and makes Daylight Savings Time permanent. I would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-life-style","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/McClintockBan.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203378,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203377\/revisions\/203378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/158165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}