It is going to be interesting to hear what Senator Gardner has to say about the bill's demise. He was one of the 13 white, male GOP dream team that drafted it. Then, after it was released, the Senator said he was going to "study it."  Not his finest hour as a Senator.  

Frankly, if your party assigns you as one of few to draft a law, you have to vote for it. But nearly every moderate Republican had major problems with the bill as written, and no one actually liked it.