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Back to you. >> bret: major garrett live on the north lawn. thank you. the labor department is reversing bush administration rules that made it easier for farmers to hire temporary foreign workers. new regulations taking effect next month will require jobs to be potioned on an electronic registry in order to give domestic workers first shot. it also mandates a wage increase of about $1 an hour. the administration is changing the policy about how prison inmates factor in to post census redistricting. states will now make the call based on information that will be released around the time of the...

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Numbers. then we have the flip side. we have the states losing congressional seats which are ohio and new york, they're losing the most, each losing two. then wrillinois, iowa, louisian massachusetts, michigan, missouri, new jersey and pennsylvania, they're all losing one. in all, if you look at this through a political lens it appears republicans are gaining the most advantage from the new numbers. most of the states we're seeing population increases are republican leaning states and republicans made big gains, remember, alin governorships and state legislatures in the midterms. these are the...

>> reporter: the importance of the government races and the redistricting process through the final two years of president obama's term is hardly lost on the white house. accordingly, democratic sources confirm to molly line today that the president will travel to boston on october 16 to stump and raise money for governor patrick, his friend and former harvard law school classmate. bret? >> bret: thank you. now to senate races and probably the most unusual one in the country in alaska. the current republican senator is battling old allies in the g.o.p., the democrats, the tea party, and even t...