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We're changing the clocks again. Daylight Saving Time begins at 2 a.m. Sunday, so don't forget to "spring forward" by one hour at bedtime Saturday night.
This is something that Florida wouldn't be doing it anymore if Congress had acted. The Sunshine Protection Act became law here back in 2018.
It would mean that we stay in permanent Daylight Saving Time, but that takes an act of Congress.
Senator Rick Scott was the governor when Florida's law passed, and he's been trying to get the federal law changed ever since he went to Washington.
"We are working on it and we can't get enough support right now to get it passed but we're hopeful at some point we're going to get it passed. It makes no sense that we could going back and forth and back and forth. I doesn't make sense."
Fellow Florida Senator Marco Rubio has also been pushing this bill. He first wrote the "Sunshine Protection Act" years ago and has submitted it several times since.
This week, he took to social media site "X" to call the practice of changing our clocks back and forth "stupid," pointing out that "locking the clock on Daylight Saving Time has support across the country and in Congress."
The U.S. Senate actually passed Rubio's bill a couple of years ago, but then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wouldn't allow a vote in that chamber.
Scott talks about what it may take to get it done.
"It seems like we're going to have to get a Republican Majority Leader that wants to get something done. The way it works up here (is) if (Senate Majority Leader Chuck) Schumer doesn't want to bring something to a vote, we don't get to vote on it...period."
But Scott is a supporter of the bill and says that if he were the Senate Majority Leader, he would "absolutely" bring it up for a vote.
Scott challenged Mitch McConnell for Republican Senate leadership unsuccessfully in 2022 and says he is considering a run for the role now that McConnell says he is stepping down from the position.