Daylight Savings Time: Why is the US congress split on this matter

My impression is that some people want it to end (i.e. permanent Standard Time), some people want to go to permanent DST, some people want to keep it the way it is now, and some people want some other alternative.

And, as @flurb noted, what people think they want doesn’t necessarily coincide with what people would actually be happy with once they got it.

The issue has been discussed before:

One thing that was pointed out in those threads is that people have different experiences depending on what latitude they live at.