Daylight saving time support letter to Congress
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Okay, one last thing. I bring this up every year as well. As you know, the time changed again this uh past weekend. Right? Away from daylight saving time back to standard time. So there's really no good reason. Why there's this strong push to can could to continue this. If you think about Florida and keeping daylight um later, people can enjoy time with their families. Um they can enjoy, you know, the kids can play play out in the parks.
It's good for business. And frankly, it's just an outdated practice. And it and in addition to that. Daylight stemming also saves energy, it prevents traffic accidents, and it actually prevents crime as well. So last year, I was the chair and we wrote a letter to our to Congress asking them to move forward with their bills. This year, there's two bills on the table. Um, one by Senator Rubio, which he's been a huge advocate for, and Senator Scott's. Right along
with them. There's also one in Congress, too, I think if I'm not correct, was sponsored by um Congressman Buchanan from Florida. Um numbers are Senate 623 and HR 60 in the House. So what I would ask if we could write a net a letter, just like we did in the past, to Congress saying we support. Daylight saving year-round. We don't want to move back and forth. Again, for all the benefits that I mentioned a second ago, because this bill
sits there. Nobody. Yeah, you think of all the time they have and the things they're doing up there. They might want to hear these two bills. In a number of states, I don't know if you're aware of it, you know, f obviously our legislator passed passed that bill, uh bipartisan support that went up there. But again, they're not moving forward with it. There's a number of states now that have done the same and their legislators have done the same. Again, we just need Congress to hear these. Again, we have two great senators that are supporting it. In the state of Florida, a number a number of members
of Congress. And I would just ask if we could write a letter and support. You're the chairman now, so you would need to sign that letter. So I'll make that motion if we're on agreement.
Second. Got a motion and second to write that letter to Congress on daylight saving time. Great.
And we
we have that letter we can provide you with. Okay. All
right, great.
All those in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed like so? Motion passed. All right, thank you, Mr.
Chairman.
You have the address where we've just send that?
We um Andy, we have it all worked out for you and um we'll just need you to sign it on our behalf and we'll we'll get it to the right people. Hopefully they'll listen to it and they'll pass it next week. Just kidding.
We'll get it out of here.
All right. That's it. Thank you, sir.