Blaming the Democrats For 9/11 Responders Bill

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Can someone explain what is going on concerning the Democrats and the 9/11 responders bill? I am not completely clueless about this issue, but it seems media coverage of this issue is changing. In addition, I have never heard the complete story from the beginning. When the story first came out it seemed that it was reported that the Republican tried to attach a meaningless amendment to the bill in order to force Democrats to vote for or aganist an unpopular issue. As a result of the amendment being place in the bill the Democrats decided to use a particular procedure to bring the bill to a vote. Once the bill was brought to a vote most Democrats voted for the bill while most Republicans voted against the bill.

After the vote, Representative Anthony Weiner angerily criticized Republicans. Days later a contraversy erupted when Representative Peter King blamed Democrats for the bill's failure. Since then there have been people in the media who have followed suit and tried to blame the Democrats for the results of the vote. This morning Representative Weiner was on Morning Joe discussing the issue. Joe Scarborough was trying to criticize Representative Weiner and the Democrats claiming they should not have brought the bill to the floor under the rules which they did.

So, can someone explain to me what actually happened? I do not blame the Democrats for the failure of the bill. More republicans could have voted for the bill. However, I do want to have an understanding of what happened.