want some pork with that
Expansion of daylight saving time gets push
Lawmakers work to finalize energy bill
By Tom Doggett and Chris Baltimore, Reuters | July 20, 2005
WASHINGTON -- A joint Senate-House committee working out the details of a broad US energy bill voted yesterday to expand US daylight saving time by two months to help reduce energy use.
Negotiators from both chambers are racing against the clock to put a final energy package on President Bush's desk by a self-imposed deadline of Aug. 1.
Among the conflicts to be resolved is the cost of energy production tax breaks, which totaled $8 billion in the House bill and $16 billion in the Senate bill, and legal protection for oil refiners that manufactured a fuel additive suspected of being a carcinogen.