Congress to add 2 months to Daylight Savings Time

Congress to add 2 months to Daylight Savings Time

Why? Was it broken? I vividly remember DST being maintained into the winter during the 1970's oil shortages. It was thought that money would be saved on office lighting. Of course, children who would have walked to school in the morning were now being driven because the sun had not yet risen. "Idiots!"