My point was that some bipartisan force was needed to curb the excesses of the nanny crowd and other leftist loop-de-loops. Senator Grassley might have been the much needed counterweight, but he failed to do his duty. Grassley was supposed to limit provisions such as the one Mr. Olson rightly deplores.

I don’t see any way my comment implied that Senator Grassley put in the provision. He failed to stop it by withdrawing from the project.

You can see the report here: http://causeofaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Final-CPPW-Report.pdf

When the legislation for ACA was to be put together, President Obama said that the Democrat Senator Max Baucus and Republican Senator Chuck Grassley should oversee the process. (Hillery Clinton was criticized for sending a fate accompli to the Congress.) The Republicans decided, after Senator Grassley gave his word to work in good faith, to limit President Obama to one term by any all means available to them, and Grassley and every other Republican withdrew from the process, offering only amendments to pander to their anti-choice base. The Republican party put politics above their legislative duties, and the instant obnoxious provision was put in the bill to keep fitness nuts on board. I am disgusted by Grassley and my blood boils every time I put Iowa Ethanol into my gas tank.