âThere is a ticking timebomb,â said Wendy Weiser, the director of the democracy program at the Brennan Center for Justice, which supports the bill. âIt will be a significant failure if [Congress] doesnât pass these two pieces of major voting legislation. It will be a significant failure for the country, for the American people ⦠I donât think Joe Manchin wants that on himself.â
Manchin is concerned the bill still does not have enough Republican buy-in, and favors an alternative piece of legislation that would reauthorize the Voting Rights Act and require election changes to be pre-approved by the federal government. Some observers say that solely passing that bill, named the John R Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, would be inadequate to undo the suppressive laws that have gone into effect and that trying to get bipartisan support for the measure is a foolâs errand, given the Republican partyâs embrace of Trumpâs lies about the 20
New Primary Care Clinic completes $11 million in projects at Schuyler Hospital
Cayuga Medical Center
Schuyler Hospital began treating patients earlier this winter at its new Primary Care Clinic in the hospital’s main building. The Clinic completes the last phase of a three-year, $11 million investment in Schuyler Hospital, the largest since the hospital opened at its current location in 1972. Last spring, the hospital opened its new 15,000-square-foot Inpatient Medical/Surgical Unit.
The new Primary Care Clinic provides advanced medical technology and greater convenience to patients who now find all the hospital’s services in one building. Primary Care had been in a separate building that was uphill and west of the hospital. Stephen Spaulding, MD, has also moved his family medicine practice from Main Street into the new Clinic. As part of the move, the former Walk-in Clinic has been re-named Convenient Care, emphasizing the additions of Fast-Web scheduling and same day acces
John Lewisâs Final Fight For Voting Rights
Democrats big reform bill contains 300 pages expanding voting rights that were written by the late civil rights leader.
By Paul Blumenthal
Illustration: Damon Dahlen/HuffPost; Photos: Getty Images
As Congress debates the passage of a sweeping reform bill targeting voting rights, campaign finance, redistricting and ethics, Democrats in the House and Senate have the name of a colleague who is no longer with them on their lips.
Rep. John Lewis, who died last year, dedicated his life to expanding and protecting the right to vote. He was attacked for it. And he was elected, in part, to help preserve it. He ultimately helped write part of the bill that Democrats are now pushing to enact.