reaction to both of these legislative -- >> i mean, as a piece of legislation, of very solid step towament. the house of representatives could have do better. we are actually need workers who are skilled engineers but who are killed workers. lou: aren't you worried about doing what has been done to the past seven years, to quibble and let the perfect the enemy of the good? we will come back and get the response to that question. just moments. stay with us. lou: we are back with our guests. we like the perimeters of this. let's talk about the. >> we want to see what the senate does. it is really the opportunity to come out of the election. what is in store for 2013? a range of conservatives have been talking about the need for broad immigration reform and. lou: these small things, all four of us have witnessed what has been slow, frustrating, and fruitless over the course of the past seven or eight years in which democrats have insisted upon the whole rather than incrementalism and the issue of immigration reform. the result has been disastrous. what are we going to start talking about

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water leve are plunging towa historic lows. the blow back for consumers in food prices could only be beginning. this is a huge story you're not hearing about. we'll explain it. more coming up. ♪ . melissa: a little madonna. the u.s. is the world's fracking king but rival nations are scrambling to steal its crown. a slew of countries have huge shale deposits however dethroning the u.s. is proving far harder than expected. stephen schork, editor of the schork report and joins to us explain. stephen, thanks for coming back to the show. >> it is great to be here, thank you. melissa: we make it looo very easy but when i look at the various countries we're taing about and the challenges they're running into it is harder than you think. for example, china is believed to have more shale and oil and gas deposits than us but they don't have enough water to make it work, right? >> that is exactly the case. lack of water in dense populated areas. the fight is toet to drink the water and use water to break up the rocks to get gas to the mar

they slowed that down and, again, they want to see the outcome and, quite frankly, we're headed towa that outcome. hopefly it's a good outcome. >> ifill: stacy palmer, you said a moment ago some people will write bigger checks as a way of thinking -- just in case they lose their ability to make these deductions and some people will write smaller checks or not write them at all. how do you balance out whether this is a good thing or a bad thing in the short term? >> it depend who you are. charities that have wealthy people, those are the people thinking about these tax deductions because most americans don't write off their charitable gifts. so the very wealthy charities are doing a little bit better. but i think this economic uncertain is what th ral problem is for the person making that $10 or $15 donation. if you're worried your job might get lost because things are so bad or that we are going to go into another recession if congress never comes up with a deal, you don't feel so good about writing that check to a charitable cause. you might go volunteer and use your time that way,