republican senators have tried to repeal the affordable care act - sometimes called obamacare - more than 60 times to date, at a cost to taxpayers of us$87 million.

contractors for fruit of the loom, hanes, and levis worked with the u.s. state department under president obama to block a minimum wage increase for haitian workers. the contractors lost; the new minimum wage went all the way up to 61 cents an hour - almost double what it had been.