Vern Buchanan: “My sense, 70, 80 percent of people have not been able to get through.”

At the Federal level I want to see Title IV-B reauthorized, and I want to see the Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act passed to provide transparency and data collection.

Polling shows that two-thirds of Americans want to unlock the clock. My bill is simply a solution to make Daylight Saving Time permanent.

The spending this year in 6 months for the Department of Defense is $440 billion, and the interest on the debt, I think, is $480 billion.

Americans across the country are tired of the biannual clock change, and the evidence is clear that permanent daylight saving time can improve public health, reduce traffic accidents, lower crime and encourage more outdoor activity.