Now that's a hand-wave. Support this assertion, as Jeff Sessions says otherwise.
The bill passed the senate. It was defeated in the House. Those are facts that can be checked.
The general consensus at the time from multiple sources, both left and right, was that Dave Brat’s defeat of Eric Cantor on June 13, 2014 killed the bill in the house.
Here’s a link to a Politico story at the time:
If you google the subject, you’ll find similar assertions made from American Spectator, New Republic, and other news outlets.
According to the Conservative Treehouse article, the House had already whipped the vote on June 11, had enough votes to pass, and were planning on holding a vote later in the week. After Cantor’s defeat the next day, House members who had previously promised their support began to get antsy, and notified Boehner and McCarthy that they would no longer be willing to vote ‘Yes’.
It’s a cold fact. Read and learn or continue to post that nonsense and look a fool.
According to Sessions, Cruz was vital in bringing about a public debate on the bill. He claims that the debate Cruz helped to start influenced conservatives in the House to oppose it. And yet, the bill did pass the Senate in June of 2013 and had a chance of passing in the House up until Dave Brat’s victory a year later. The most you can say about Cruz helping that outcome is if the discussion sparked in 2013 made the bill too toxic to pass in the House immediate after Senate passage. But again, an event like Brat’s was needed to cause it to be permanently shelved.