点击事件jQuery点击事件不点火

I'm creating a new view in MVC4 and ran into this issue. To test it out, I made a view with something but the master layout and one button. Whenever I click this button, the event handler doesn't fire. If I manually call the click even in Firebug via $("#btnSearch").click() it works. I have many many other pages written with the same master layout with no issue. I have no idea what is causing this, it exists in FF and IE (I don't have Chrome at my work) and no JS errors are thrown. I feel like I'm going nuts here and I really appreciate anyone taking a look. I'm creating a new view in MVC4 and ran into th