House votes to reinstate ‘assault weapons’ ban for first time in decades

But that compromise, which included some new accountability measures for police departments, infuriated many House progressives, including those in the Black Caucus. Several liberal Black Democrats were particularly “livid” at the language, according to one person familiar with the discussions, and some complained that the accountability language did too little during a closed-door meeting of Black Caucus members Friday morning.

The centrists still made a last-gasp push to iron out concerns with that language Friday afternoon, as Gottheimer, Rep. Abigail Spanberger (D-Va.) and others spent over an hour . . .