As the provisions of the Affordable Care Act — referred to as Obamacare for short — begin to come online, congressional Republicans haveAi??continuedAi??to obsess over repealing the law altogether.

The New York Times looked into the numbers this morning and concluded that House Republicans have spent a whopping 15 percent of their time trying to repeal all or parts of the new health care law.

Republicans don’t seem to have any regret over the fact that repealing Obamacare has taken precedence over other issues, like jobs.

ai???Itai??i??s something that we wanted to move up on the list of priorities,ai??? said Representative Steve Scalise (R-LA) to the New York Times. ai???And Iai??i??m glad they listened to us.ai???