It think it’s possible that Sessions believed Cruz, but I don’t. The bill died because Eric Cantor got primaried out of a job.
That article is a nice reminder of how the GOP loves to shelve the issue because they are spineless. Or rather, they were spineless, until Trump showed up. Now they just parrot him, but will still fail to deliver. The globalists fund all of their campaigns.
Sessions is my senator. I trust him.