Republican senator renews push to make daylight savings permanent

James Lankford cites a veteran as partial reason for recommitting to Sunshine Protection Act, which has already passed in Senate

As Americans pushed their clocks forward an hour on Sunday to implement daylight savings, Senator James Lankford doubled down on his commitment to eliminating seasonal time changes, saying he wanted to abandon what he described as an antiquated first world war convention.

The Republican lawmaker from Oklahoma said he was devoted to proverbially locking the clock through his Sunshine Protection Act, which unanimously passed in the Senate but was not taken up by the House. Speaking with CNN State of the Union host Jake Tapper on Sunday, Lankford said he wanted to start the dialogue" back up partly because of an encounter with a military veteran who seemed to view ending daylight savings time as a dying wish.