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A bipartisan group of 12 US senators reintroduced legislation that would make daylight saving time permanent, nearly a year after the Senate voted unanimously to end clock switching.
But the bill failed to get a vote last year in the US House of Representatives because lawmakers could not agree on whether to keep standard time or permanent daylight saving time, said Representative Frank Pallone.
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