This is why bills are almost never voted down. One thing that politicians hate doing is switching positions because they can then get attacked on both sides of

This is why bills are almost never voted down. One thing that politicians hate doing is switching positions because they can then get attacked on both sides of an issue and as a flip-flopper. In fact, bills rarely get voted down once they are proposed. Congressional leaders rarely force a vote unless they know the bill will pass. The most common way for a bill to die is to just never vote on it. This allows them to not support or oppose something controversial.