loans. it s certainly, begin, a step in the right direction. this is a by-product of the 2010 law. this does not affect the private student debt market. this is only for federal loans. it also allows you to have your loans forgiven after 20 years if you make timely payments. that s another issue with this. a lot of times like sally mae and other organizations may miss payments you ve made. they re setting aside $70 million, sally mae, because they re being investigated for wrongly processing payments. step in the right direction, but we need to go further. all right. we ll be coming back throughout the rest of the week for other potential solutions and some expert takes on whether they ll work. thank you for joining us, alexis. appreciate your work. thanks for having me. please keep the responses coming. you can tweet them t to @ronandaily or send them to ronan farrow@msnbc.com.
but it s worth going back and take a peek at some of the reporting this morning from up with steve kornacki. thank you both. you can watch steve every weekend at 8:00 a.m. appreciate you sticking around. also this week, house republican leaders unveiled an immigration plan at their annual retreat. t plan that they re working on offers no special path to citizenship for all illegal immigrants. but it would allow some to remain in the u.s. under certain conditions and it would allow children brought here to be eligible for citizenship. but it can t happen until after specific enforcement triggers have gone into effect. but still some are calling this maybe a step in the right direction. sheila jackson lee joins us. always good to talk to you, representative. you tell me, is this a step in the right direction? t.j., thank you.
reporter: the problem is we don t. while the u.s. collects foreigner s fingerprints and photos who enter the u.s. there is no similar exit system. a tracking system for people means that ice now has data to enforce the law against over stays. reporter: despite numerous congressional mandates and billions of tax dollars the federal government has failed to develop an entry-exit system siting costs, and opposition from the airlines. critics call that a national security disgrace. if we want to do immigration reform this is a critical component of it. reporter: the senate immigration bill does require an exit system but only at the airports and seaports similar to scanning a passport within five years but nothing at the border crossings. better than we have now, but not ideal. martha: a step in the right direction. thank you very much. see you later. bill: there is a tense manhunt for a suspect responsible for an unspeakable crime, and 8-year-old girl stabbed and killed inside o
made the majority s case for change. i commend these passionate leaders. they have made compelling arguments for reform. for more, let s turn to senator jeff merkley of oregon who introduced the filibuster reform. senator, good to have you with us tonight. is this the ticket to ending obstruction? well, it won t end it, ed, but it certainly takes us a step in the right direction. we need to end the use of a filibuster getting to a bill and we need to end the use getting to a conference committee. those are outrageous applications. but moreover, the secret silent filibuster on a bill itself, the one that you never see when you just see a quorum call, that is what has been killing important legislation, be it the president s jobs bill, be it the pay equity, the dream act, the disclose act, you name it, all out of sight. it has to end. people say they want more debate, they need to come to the floor of the senate and debate, make their case before their colleagues and the american peo
udall, harkin and whitehouse made the majority s case for change. i commend these passionate leaders. they have made compelling arguments for reform. for more, let s turn to senator jeff merkley of oregon who introduced the filibuster reform. senator, good to have you with us tonight. is this the ticket to ending obstruction? well, it won t end it, ed, but it certainly takes us a step in the right direction. we need to end the use of a filibuster getting to a bill and we need to end the use getting to a conference committee. those are outrageous applications. but moreover, the secret silent filibuster on a bill itself, the one that you never see when you just see a quorum call, that is what has been killing important legislation, be it the president s jobs bill, be it the pay equity, the dream act, the disclose act, you name it, all out of sight. it has to end. people say they want more debate, they need to come to the floor of the senate and debate,