After a period of major reform at the end of the 19th century, and especially since the procedural struggles over civil rights legislation in the 1960s, power in the House has been increasingly concentrated in the hands of the Speaker. So it is a good bet that whoever was responsible had Boehner's acquiescence if not outright support.
The Speaker in turn answers to the caucus which selects him, and Republicans in particular by and large hold to the Hastert rule which says that nothing should be brought to the floor unless it has support of a majority of the majority.
So what is meant to be an approximation of the will of the people, becomes under the Hastert Rule, an approximation of the will of the people so long as the people's will meets the approval of a select group of ~25% of the people's representatives.
The greatest flaw of representative democracy is that the people's will must meet the approval of some or all of their elected representatives. Due to the many and varied issues that come across the legislative bodies, you will inevitably have issues where the majority of the people are at odds with the majority of representatives. Every candidate in an election is a compromise; the voter agrees with them on some issues, but not others. The bigger Congressional districts get, the worse the problem becomes.
The Speaker in turn answers to the caucus which selects him, and Republicans in particular by and large hold to the Hastert rule which says that nothing should be brought to the floor unless it has support of a majority of the majority.