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on whether to raise the minimum wage from four-25 to five dollars and 15 cents an hour. The House approved a similar measure which includes tax breaks for small businesses. But the legislation could die in the Senate because Republican amendments would effectively exclude millions of workers from receiving the higher minimum wage.

she will not accept a Presidential pardon. Mrs. MacDougal refuses to testify before a grand jury investigating the Whitewater affair. She says that Special Counsel Kenneth Starr is trying to coerce her into testifying against Bill and Hillary Clinton and that her husband Jim MacDougal is willing to lie about the Clinton's, if that's what it takes to save himself.

of the House of Representatives, who make up the Freshman Class of the 105th Congress. Generally, they say they'll take a more pragmatic and less confrontational approach than their immediate predecessors. Of the 73 new members elected this year, 41 are Democrats. That's considerably different from 1994, when 73 of the 86 newly elected members were Republicans.

in Georgia, backing Bob Dole for President and local candidates for the House and Senate races. The group's membership is up 25-percent from last year and experts say their efforts could be significant in a close race. A poll by the Atlanta Constitution shows President Clinton leading Dole by 15 points...the biggest gap in any southern state.

, a ballot measure that would allow people to bring securities fraud lawsuits in state court, which currently are banned from federal court. Despite a forty million dollar media blitz, many voters remain undecided about the initiative. Supporters say it would protect older citizens from swindlers. Opponents argue that it would encourage unscrupulous lawyers to file frivolous lawsuits.

to get Holocaust victim's money from secret Swiss accounts. American Jewish leaders are again calling on Swiss banks to find and redistribute money deposited during the Nazi era. Under international pressure, Switzerland is conducting an investigation into what happened to the money deposited by European Jews, and how much is owed to Holocaust survivors or their families.

to defend its incumbent House members against a well-financed campaign by organized labor. The AFL/CIO has reportedly spent $35 million in targeting House Republicans in order to help Democrats win back control. Republicans have responded by forming a business coalition to counter the labor attack. The coalition has, so far, been under-funded.

Two years after the Justice Department rewrote the official definition of rape, reports of rape have increased in most cities. Under the old definition, however, the number of rapes between 2012 and 2013 were down.

The jobs report for February came in surprisingly strong this morning. Employers added 236,000 jobs to payrolls and the unemployment rate fell to a four-year low of 7.7 percent.

The ACLU says detained immigrant children suffered pervasive abuse at the hands of U.S. border authorities. Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks to law professor Claudia Flores, who helped draft the report.