with republicans. must of the grassroots energy, all of the frustrations over the long, long road of build back better which finally became the inflation reduction act was born out of the fact that they felt that he was taking too much time negotiating with republicans on other things, hoping for things like infrastructure and maybe other deals. his career was during the arc of a more civilized time. he was a gentle man of the senate, and he really wasn t going to take on the fight of our time. it is an interesting turn. everything happening at once. not only the slate of really, really productive and successful and meaningful new laws coming out of the senate with the help of republicans, passed by, and signed into law
all of the frustrations over the long, long road of build back better which finally became the inflation reduction act was born out of the fact that they felt that he was taking too much time negotiating with republicans on other things, hoping for things like infrastructure and maybe other deals. his career was during the arc of a more civilized time. he was a gentle man of the senate, and he really wasn t going to take on the fight of our time. it is an interesting turn. everything happening at once. not only the slate of really, really productive and successful and meaningful new laws coming out of the senate with the help of republicans, passed by, and signed into law by president biden, as gas prices are going down, as
but after the recent election, is the old weakness creeping back into french politics? i asked lucy williamson, the bbc s paris correspondent, for her views. he is in a tough spot. he s tasked his prime minister with putting together what he calls a government of action , to try and sound out whether there are any other groups in parliament who might be prepared to come in with the government and to present him with a series of proposals. but he s also spoken to the nation last week in a brief speech, and in true macron form, tried to present it as an opportunity. he was trying to say, look, you know, we need to learn to govern in a different way and pass laws in a different way and use a sort of ad hoc system of alliances bill by bill, law by law. and he very cleverly, i think, tried to also spread responsibility around the parliament. he s saying to the other parties, look, you may not want to come into a coalition. it may not be the right time
back into french politics? i asked lucy williamson, the bbc s paris correspondent, for her views. he is in a tough spot. he s tasked his prime minister with putting together what he calls a government of action , to try and sound out whether there are any other groups in parliament who might be prepared to come in with the government and to present him with a series of proposals. but he s also spoken to the nation last week in a brief speech, and in true macron form, tried to present it as an opportunity. he was trying to say, look, you know, we need to learn to govern in a different way and pass laws in a different way and use a sort of ad hoc system of alliances bill by bill, law by law. and he very cleverly, i think, tried to also spread responsibility around the parliament. he s saying to the other parties, look, you may not want to come into a coalition. it may not be the right time for a national unity government, but each group in parliament, each party
modest gun legislation, and the world will also not end if you go a little bit further, there are democrats who want this to be a first step, who see this as something that they re going to do, and hope that folks jump on board, it is hard to see it happen. and i think it s likely that this had passed and signed into law by president biden, is going to be the first and last step, especially if republicans are able to, with one or both of the chambers, in november, because it is hard to see how many further gun legislation passes then. and so gun control advocates have said, and have said for a long time, and as well as other advocacy groups in the democratic party, is that we have to go big, as soon as we can, until we don t have, until democrats don t have power anymore, it s hard to see that happening, right, and i think this take is a lot more realistic than democrats have when they came into this congress when president biden was sworn in, saying, you know, we ll take what we can g