Crisis Averted-Hopefully

This just in, according to a source in DC:

*_At 1 PM TODAY, Senator Craig is to offer an amendment striking the entire Daylight Savings Time issue from the Energy bill_*. He replaces it with a study of the matter.

This amendment has the support of Senators Domenici and Bingaman as well as the US Secretary of Transportation & the Administrator of the FAA.

Please call or email the following Senators ASAP asking that they support the Craig Amendment to the Energy bill. *_The conference meeting begins at 1 PM. The calls/emails must be made before then._*

Senator Pete Domenici (R - NM)
Chairman, Energy Committee
(202) 224-6621
Web Form: http://www.domenici.senate.gov/contact/contactform.cfm

Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
Ranking Member, Energy Committee
(202) 224-5521
E-mail: senator_bingaman@bingaman.senate.gov

Senator Orrin Hatch (R - UT)
(202) 224-5251
Web Form: http://www.hatch.senate.gov/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Offices.Contact

Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR)
(202) 224-5244
Web form: http://wyden.senate.gov/contact/

Basically, an ammendment will be offered to the conference committee that will strike the daylight savings time extension proposal from the pending energy bill in favor of an ammendment to "study" the matter further. This ammendment, offered by Senator Larry Craig (R-Idaho), has the support of the FAA, and DoT as well as the chairman and ranking member of the Senate energy committee, Pete Domenici (R-NM) and Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), respectively. Call now, you've got less than an hour!

UPDATE: It would be nice to call Sen. Craig's office, too, to show some hakaras hatov. His office number is (202) 224-2752.