you can sense already, even colleagues,ocratic this issue was a little too complicated and too risky. thinking,t is not the but your question is to the point. big point about it, it is two separate things. border andn at the his executive orders will be tied to it. >> about one minute left. legislation of people were still looking towards work three us to see. .t was one being drafted he said yesterday that legislation would not be introduced, that leadership told be no- him there would immigration reform this year. was in itware of what and do you think it would have had any support to pass? as i think it would have. we are talking about low hanging fruit. we are talking about the spouses .f active military persons children,king about kids who already qualify to get -- permanent status. low hanging on the immigration and yet, those redeemed to not be part of the discussion. many of us came to the conclusion that if we cannot get the whole contents of package, let's start to pragmatically and incrementally start to pull things down. i am still open to that discussion. but if there is

staff, as we mentioned, i have served in --ocratic and frustrations democratic administrations.ontaine, we are strongly bipartisan. that trickles all the way down to the staff. again, we have that same flavor today. both in terms of people who served in government but also people in the private sector. >> where do most of your funds come from? >> it is a mixture of foundations who fund the projects, corporations who give us general support, and wealthy individuals who provide donations. we are nonprofit. >> how hard is it to raise the money on a year-to-year basis? >> it is always a challenge. when the economy takes a dip. but i think cnas has established a track record of turning out , thatwork that has impact we don't have much problems raising the funds. does thech impact money that comes in have on a position you will take as a think tank? >> non-. -- none. we are very careful not to take money that would buy our research. when we accept corporate funds, we never accept a corporation's fund to do a project advocating something they produce. we always pull the funds with lots