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He is expecting to make a full recovery. this surgery coming just days after the death of his wife, joan. president obama fulfilling a promise he made at the state of the union address to raise minimum wage for contract workers. now obama is urging congress to pass legislation to cover all workers. susan salney reports from washington. >> reporter: with the stroke of his pen on an executive order, president obama raised the minimum wage for new federal contract workers to $10.10 up from $7.25....

Interim deal with tehran and the mere fact that both sides are negotiating. joined by a prominent tea party leader, rand paul of kentucky filed suit against the president over nsa data collection. paul said he is not against buying and looking at phone records, but he and his backers charged nsa is violating citizens rights against unreasonable search and we will talk about that coming up here on cnn. stay tuned. i want to get back to the white house. the president is about to sign an order to r...

Limit. so the fact is well let the democrats put the votes up, well put a minimum number of votes up to get it passed. >> they did and it passed. the nation faces a february 27th deadline to raise the debt ceiling or risk a technical default. the bill now goes the senate. the president putting pen to paper on the federal minimum wage today signing an executive order that will raise the minimum wage for federal contract workers to $10.10 an hour. right now they make $7.25 an hour. the increase ...

>> anytime i can bring a case to a positive conclusion and provide a service to one of my fellow citizens that ive done my job, i feel good. a serial killer was loose and investigator his no leads until an alert investigator saw something no one else had seen. a possible fingerprint on the victims skin. the problem was how to collect it. texas city, texas is one of the largest oil refinery sites in america. the oil business is labor intensive which poses its own unique set of problems. >> we ...

Caused by harsh drug laws. on thursday deputy attorney general james cole asked defense attorneys around the country for help in seeking out non-violent, low-level drug offenders whose crimes might carry a shorter sentence today. cole announced that doj has requested those attorneys to help offenders petition the president for early release. the move comes just a month after president obama commuted this sentence of eight people who were serving long terms for offenses related to crack cocaine. ...

Raising the minimum wage for federal contract workers, some of them working families for new manufacturing institutes. that all sounds like pretty good stuff to me. >> if you look at the number of executive orders or even other executive actions that barack obama has taken, there are fewer than his predecessors, including george w. bush and most of them are pretty narrow and not sweeping. so, you know, my suggestion for the house republicans is instead of suing, why dont you work with him to mak...

Obamas executive order around federal contract workers. in 1941, labor leader a. phillip randolph threatened a march on washington if the president did not issue an executive order to end discrimination in the defense industry for african-americans. it was only through the threat of disruption and protest that the president did it. >> and its probably something that would not have passed legislatively -- >> it would not have passed and it was the first executive action on both workers rights and...

Government. if theres something that he thinks should be changed, he needs to make the change to congress. he was in waukesha talking about job training. i wish he would have looked at the skills act that we passed last year reforming our job training program to make it easier for people who want to work, to get the skills they need to get the jobs that are out there. thats what weve done in wisconsin with a lot of job training reform and its as if we werent even part of this conversation. so th...

Food workers walked off the job. tonight, a fast food worker and mother will be at the state of the union to hear the president announce he will issue an executive order to raise the minimum wage for federal contract workers. for the thousands of workers who have organized and fought over the last year, they have forced their voices to be heard. joining me now, senator sherrod brown, democrat from ohio. and senator, i feel like your voters, your constituents in ohio are such a kind of weather ve...

Taking executive action. he talked about raising the minimum wage for federal contract workers. not a huge step, but the argument from the white house is, look, the president wants to work with congress, but there is a group of republicans, tea party republicans such as yourself and many in the house, who block any attempts at compromise and therefore he has to do something. whats your response? >> thats their talking point, but he doesnt try to work with congress. he doesnt talk with congress. ...