Julia Carson Enters Daylight-Saving Time Debate
Congresswoman Asks Federal Officials To Probe Issue
POSTED: 6:06 p.m. EST February 4, 2004
INDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana Rep. Julia Carson is asking the federal government to investigate whether the state is losing money by not adopting daylight-saving time.
Carson asked Congress' General Accounting Office to look into the economic costs of Indiana's time zones.
In a news release, Carson called the current confusion over the time zones inconvenient, and claimed that it would save Indiana families more than $7 million in electricity rates alone.
Carson also said changing time zones would be a windfall for small and large businesses by allowing lifting barriers to competition, improving communication and commerce and simplifying financial transactions.
A bill Carson filed in Congress last year to force daylight-saving time was not successful.
Last week, Lt. Gov. Kathy Davis said she wanted the state to adopt daylight-saving time and use the central time zone statewide.
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