Lots of good legislation gets drowned by the weight of partisan amendments and also just to thwart the Dems from "winning" at anything at all, even a bill that the GOP would support fully when they make their own version of it. "The Party of No", Stealing their thunder. This bill was originally introduced by Bernie Sanders and Harry Reid. It's why this truly is the worst Congress not just so far in US history, but the worst anyone could even imagine since the Secessionists at the start of the Civil War.