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“There is a ticking timebomb,” said Wendy Weiser, the director of the democracy program at the Brennan Center for Justice, which supports the bill. “It will be a significant failure if [Congress] doesn’t pass these two pieces of major voting legislation. It will be a significant failure for the country, for the American people … I don’t think Joe Manchin wants that on himself.” 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 ele...

Joe Manchin has publicly signaled that he doesn’t back Democrats’ bill and wants bipartisan support – can senators win him over and move forward?

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...

John Lewis’s 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 fo...

Activists want to save voting rights bill by killing the filibuster By Caitlin Huey-Burns and Adam Brewster March 5, 2021 / 8:30 AM / CBS News Voting rights activists set for Senate fight With voting rights legislation that passed the House this week marching toward a likely death in the Senate, activists are readying for a fight to save it: they're taking on the bill-slaying filibuster, the Senate rule requiring 60 votes to end debate on a measure. In an evenly split 50-50 Senate, it will always be a struggle to win over 10 senators from the other side.  "Those who...