“To demonstrate how clueless they were, recall the surprise when they learned -years after passage - that it applied to them, and they went begging to Obama to be allowed an exception.”
I remember, but didn’t Reid’s $inate pass exceptions for them, which Herr Obozo signed to include all of Congress.
Obama did it on his own, as I recall. No legislation. It seems to me there was also a “sign up by the deadline or lose the benefit forever” stipulation as well.