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(112,445 posts) Mon May 11, 2015, 04:18 AM May 2015

Texas House votes to keep daylight savings; might cause people to miss church to watch football

AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas House push to exclude the state from observing daylight saving time has collapsed amid concerns that doing so would make residents choose between going to church and watching the Dallas Cowboys.

After a lengthy, often outlandish debate, lawmakers defeated the much-watched proposal Friday 56-79.

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But the fervor waned amid realizations that, while the start of Sunday church in Texas would change, NFL start times elsewhere may not.

It reached crescendo when Dallas Democratic Rep. Rafael Anchia declared: “I don’t want to miss church, and I don’t want to miss the Cowboys game.”

Read more: http://www.abqjournal.com/581793/news-more/waste-of-time-texas-house-votes-to-keep-daylight-savings.html

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Texas House votes to keep daylight savings; might cause people to miss church to watch football (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2015 OP
What's the difference? One takes place in a giant stadium and the other is a sporting event. corkhead May 2015 #1
Since I don't do either, it won't affect me at all. hobbit709 May 2015 #2
and here I thought they had the ability to get a least one thing right. Javaman May 2015 #3

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3. and here I thought they had the ability to get a least one thing right.
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Mon May 11, 2015, 10:53 AM
May 2015

but alas, they continue on their unbroken streak of stupidity.

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