to find out, bill sanders and dave webster, archaeologists from penn state university, began a projectin 1980 that would span a decade of work. sanders: before we srted the copan project, we knew a great deal about copan. and its history was very similar to that of many classic maya sites. there was a long period of population growth, of political evolution, peaking around 800 a.d., and then the dynastic sequence ends shortly afterwards. and within a short period, the valley seems to have been abandoned. what we didn't know was anything about the factors and the mechanisms and the processes that produced this peculiar population history. and what we decided to do was a series of excavations and surveys which would allow us to find out how big the population was, how it was distributed on the landscape, how those people made a living off of this landscape, what the various social classes and social groupings were, and finally, hopefully, to get enough chronological information to find out how long this whole process of fluorescence and decline required. keach: their goal was nothing les

bill sanders. one of the aspects of culture that is extraordinarily variable is the economy. economy means the ownership of property and the production and distribution of goods. there are cultures and economies in which every nuclear family is self-sufficient. and then there are economies where there is considerable interdependence among the various households. one of the measures of economic complexity is just the amount of what we call division of labor -- occupational specialization. keach: archaeologists have recently discovered evidence of occupational specialization in teotihuacan, like the manufacture of clay figurines. figurines came in a variety of styles, many painted and highly detailed. thousands of these sculpted faces have been discovered. they were probably used in ritual. many are exactly the same, indicating they were mass produced in molds. across the atlantic is fez, morocco, a city that has changed little in a thousand years. here can be found an analogy for the economy of ancient teotihuacan. this is a leather tanning workshop, where fine skins are produ

i'm joining tonight by bernie sanders of vermont, who worked very hard on this bill. senator, i hope you saved 200,000 jobs. i don't know how much cooperation you got from the house, but i want to go right to the money. what happens to that money in the senate bill? >> we made significant progress on that, ed. what happens is, as you pointed out, right now the postal service paying $5.5 billion every single year, which is really quite crazy. no other entity in america comes anywhere close to having that kind of burden. what we did is two things. we reduced the $5.5 to $3.5, but we also said the postal service can take $3.5 billion -- $3 billion, i'm sorry, out of the fund, the employee retirement fund, to pay for current retiree benefits, which means they will be spending $5.5 billion less on retiree health care right now. that is a significant step forward and will help the postal service. furthermore, because the postal service was overpaying into overpaid into the retirement system, we brought them back another $11 billion, which will also help them. so we made som

bills online. the top management of the post office needs to fight back. they need to expand the store. bernie sandersants to let the post office sale products that they are barred from offering -- a good idea -- like cell phones of delivery of wine fishing licenses notarizing documents and cashing paychecks. bring more people into the post office. good identify, bernie. >> what about the secret service scandal? tons of comments stephen scott wells says what's scandalous about it? it doesn't matter to anybody but the bible thumpers. glenda neil says it's an embarrassment but remarkably stupid. william j. green with the president's schedule and their hotel rooms and the fact this went down over $47 is a huge embarrassment for president obama and his entire regime. betty ann frederick says it's a disgrace to the secret service but men will be pigs whenever the occasion arises. men are so stupid. >> and horn. >> i resemble that remark. >> and stupid. >> this is the bill press show. ♪ >> good morning. it is wednesday, april 18th. so good to see you this morning. thank you for joining us and welcome to the

bill. good morning, everyone. former rick >> lauren sandersantorum and foster frees, he wondered allowed on fox business news if president obama's tell prompteders are bullet proof, now that they, romney and santorum have trained their bar elides on president obama, i think his tell prompters are bullet proof. he said he regretted the statement immediately after making it. however, you may remember, he is the same guy who thinks good birth control for women is putting an aspirin between they their in these. mitt romney is down 19 points but now he is trying to turn women against president obama payment claiming they have lost 92% of jobs under the current professional. po lit i politifacts says it's too soon for any of obamaoosoos policies to have taken place. the reason women did was that men lost most of the jobs and women were following suit. connecticut will abolish the death penalty. the state house has done the same. the governor says he will sign the bill. it will be four states that have done away with capital punishment in the last fi

bill is only going to delay it for few years. there's no need to shut down post offices or processing facilities and lay any of these people off. senator bernie sanders, it seems like we have to rely on him for everything. he explained it on the senate floor today. >> the major crisis facing the postal service is the fact that they have a burden of having to provide five and a half billion dollars every single year in future retiree health benefits. $5.5 billion every year which is imposed upon them in 2006. according to the inspector general of the postal service. the $44 billion in that account right now is all that it needs because when that $44 billion accrues interest over a 20 year or so period, it will have enough money to pay out all of the future retiree health benefits that it has to do. >> americans, i ask you to grasp this story. they already have enough money to take care of retirement for the next 75 years but they have a bill of $5.5 billion, which is on their expenses because congress forced them to go down the road. why? because they want to kill the unions and destroy the voting black. they want to destroy any infrastructure and wor

sanders. the mayor of boca raton, susan, for hosting us here today. we've also got your outstanding senator and former astronaut, which is very cool. bill nelson, in the house. a wonderful congressman is here. and my great friend, congresswoman, debbie wasserman schultz is here. and you are here, which is very exciting. i am glad you guys came out. >> we love you! >> i love you back. now, look, guys, i know this is a busy time of year. some of you are less than a month away from graduation. some seniors in the house. pretty soon you'll be closing the books at wimberly for the last time. maybe you'll be that one last trip to the beach or coyote jack's. you'll be picking up that diploma that you work so hard for. your parents will be there. they'll be beaming, full of pride. and then comes what folks call the real world. now, i actually think college is part of real world, but obviously there is a transition that will take place as you leave college. and some of you may go on to post graduate degrees but some of you will be out there looking for work. college is the single most important investment you can make in your future. so i'm prou

sanders to me. that is why we think a bill needs by real-time information sharing and and in it and incentivize that information sharing. those are the kinds of things that really should go into a conference of cyberbill. >> and, would you be able to say that the national security needs of the united states had been met by a bill that did not include any protection for our critical infrastructure? >> senator i would say based on what we know now and the risks that we already see now in the kinds of attacks that we are already seeing now, the failure to address court critical infrastructure would be a significant gap in legislation. >> thank you. my last question on this same subject, but switching from the national security and public safety side of cyberattack to the intellectual property and economic competitiveness side of our cybervulnerability. i said about two years ago that i felt we were on the losing and of the biggest transfer of wealth in the history of humankind through theft and piracy because of the attacks on our industrial base and art technological base from overseas for the purpose

bill to xpand gambling... but it never came up for a vote ii theehouse. the estranged wife of former football star eion sanders ail. bail.pilar sanders was aarested monday night... on misdemeanor domestic violence ccarges.her famous ex tweeted... as he was allegedly being attacked by pilar and a friend at the couple's texas home.now... under an emergency protective order... pilar sanders is foobiddee from returning to the family's house for 61 days.but she claims deion's suuerrtar status is blocking the truth. :40 "i'm a full time mom. 100% for my children and i just shake since ann of this bbggn. began.the couple married in 1999 and starred in a reality show that aired on the oxygen networrkthey haae three chiidren together.sanders has two other children ffom an earlier relationship. they're now in the midst of aabitter a 10-year old girl from new jersey... gets the surprise of a lifetime. lifetime."hey baby!" the second time timeher dad... senior airman jorgg gonzalez... just got &ppack from afghanistan. hhs daaghter, celine... saw him for the first time during school on monday. she says it's been a long six

sanders would break that whole case wide open? [ laughter ] >> did you see that coming? and sometimes when i go to kfc i wash it down with an o.j. and that gets even weirder. >> billg to get to the bottom of it, miller, as we always do. you know we will. >> let's get to the bottom of this oprah thing. for be t from me to tell oprah winfrey about entertainment. i have had a lot of shows shot out from under me, billy. as far as television goes, i am to tv what the rifles are to horse flesh. i'm not going to tell oprah anything. i do think once a nice hard working intelligent, fun talk show host suffers the defecation of the culture at large. it's going to catch up with you. you can't bear up underneath that the best thing that oprah could do to get it back together i'm a woman with a start-up business. don't think of me like that. the next time somebody says to oprah i'm honored to breathe the same air as you she ought to say timeout, that's sweet. i know what you mean, i appreciate it but that is crazy. i'm just a person. >> bill: oprah didn't ask me. i know her a little bit. we have had her on our program a couple times and we worked together at king world. she st

sanders would break that whole case wide open? [ laughter ] >> did you see that coming? and sometimes when i go to kfc i wash it down with an o.j. and that gets even weirder. >> billttom of it, miller, as we always do. you know we will. >> let's get to the bottom of this oprah thing. for be t from me to tell oprah winfrey about entertainment. i have had a lot of shows shot out from under me, billy. as far as television goes, i am to tv what the rifles are to horse flesh. i'm not going to tell oprah anything. i do think once a nice hard working intelligent, fun talk show host suffers the defecation of the culture at large. it's going to catch up with you. you can't bear up underneath that the best thing that oprah could do to get it back together i'm a woman with a start-up business. don't think of me like that. the next time somebody says to oprah i'm honored to breathe the same air as you she ought to say timeout, that's sweet. i know what you mean, i appreciate it but that is crazy. i'm just a person. >> bill: oprah didn't ask me. i know her a little bit. we have had her on our program a couple times and we worked together at king world. she started a network ta

worked with senators sanders and roughly 25 of my colleagues in the senate, including senator durbin, one-fourth of the entire u.s. senate should negotiate changes to this original bill. i want to thank chairman lieberman and senators carper for their greater leadership. i am glad about some of the changes they have maivmentd the substitute amendment would in fact keep at a minimum 100 mail-processing plants that are currently scheduled to close and would remain open for at least three years. overnight delivery standards in regional areas will be protected. a large number of rural post offices that are being studied for closure will remain open. i am a cosponsor of the amendment to the legislation which would provide important safeguards before closing mail-processing facilities, and i a also cosponsored the mccal consist merkley amendment thald that would establish a two-year moratorium on closing rural posts and recognize the concerns of rural residents. there is no doubt, madam president, that changes need to be made to the postal service to make it more competitive in the digital world. i think a lot of those changes are contained in this substitute amendment. we

inequity, this bill would ensure that those at the very top pay at least the tax rates faced by middle-class families. i want to thank senators akaka, begich, leahy, harkin, blumenthal, sanders schumer, reed of rhode island, rockefeller, franken, boxer, durbin and levin for cosponsor this measure, and i would ask unanimous consent to add senator lautenberg as an additional cosponsor. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: the structure of the bill is pretty simple. if your total income, capital gains included, is over $2 million, you calculate your taxes under the regular system. and if your effective rate turns out to be greater than 30%, you pay that rate. if, on the other hand, your effective tax rate is below 30% 30% -- like the 11% tax rate warren buffett paid in 2010 -- then you'd pay the fair share tax of 30% instead. taxpayers earning less than $1 million -- which is more than 99.8% of americans -- would not be affected by the bill at all. for taxpayers earning between $1 million and $2 million, the fair share tax gets gradually phased in so that ultimately when you earn over $2 million, you're subject to the full 30% minimum rate. the one exceptio

inequity, this bill would ensure that those at the very top pay at least the tax rates faced by middle-class families. i want to thank senators akaka, begich, leahy, harkin, blumenthal, sanders, schumer, reed of rhode island, rockefeller, franken, boxer, durbin and levin for cosponsor this measure, and i would ask unanimous consent to add senator lautenberg as an additional cosponsor. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: the structure of the bill is pretty simple. if your total income, capital gains included, is over $2 million, you calculate your taxes under the regular system. and if your effective rate turns out to be greater than 30%, you pay that rate. if, on the other hand, your effective tax rate is below 30% 30% -- like the 11% tax rate warren buffett paid in 2010 -- then you'd pay the fair share tax of 30% instead. taxpayers earning less than $1 million -- which is more than 99.8% of americans -- would not be affected by the bill at all. for taxpayers earning between $1 million and $2 million, the fair share tax gets gradually phased in so that ultimately when you earn over $2 million, you're subject to the full 30% minimum rate. the one excepti

inequity, this bill would ensure that those at the very top pay at least the tax rates faced by middle-class families. i want to thank senators akaka, begich, leahy, harkin, blumenthal, sanders, schumer, reed of rhode island, rockefeller, franken, boxer, durbin and levin for cosponsor this measure, and i would ask unanimous consent to add senator lautenberg as an additional cosponsor. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: the structure of the bill is pretty simple. if your total income, capital gains included, is over $2 million, you calculate your taxes under the regular system. and if your effective rate turns out to be greater than 30%, you pay that rate. if, on the other hand, your effective tax rate is below 30% 30% -- like the 11% tax rate warren buffett paid in 2010 -- then you'd pay the fair share tax of 30% instead. taxpayers earning less than $1 million -- which is more than 99.8% of americans -- would not be affected by the bill at all. for taxpayers earning between $1 million and $2 million, the fair share tax gets gradually phased in so that ultimately when you earn over $2 million, you're subject to the full 30% minimum rate. the one excepti

senator sessions, we have senator sanders, we have senator cardin, we have -- we have members that reach the entire ideological spectrum. so if we could all vote for a bill, then this can happen. and it will send a great significant mall to this country. -- signal to this country. i want to thank all the groups out there who have worked so hard to bring pressure an all of us to keep this moving forward. and it really starts with a coalition that includes the afl-cio and the chamber of commerce. good for them. you know, they don't always agree, but they agree on this one. and then we have all the business community that's behind this, the grant granit granite e cement people and the general contractors. it goes on and on. it's many, many groups who have come together to push forward on this. so i want to mark this moment -- i'm really happy i was able to be on the floor when the conferees were named. it is a great list of conferees. we have in this bill the restore act, which will rebillete whichf after the terrible b.p. spill. and we have people who are very instrumental in writing this restore racquet, including senator bill nelson & senator richard she

the record that we're trying to deal with that reality in the bill as it is and of course state my intention to ten to work with senator sanders to make this bill as good as we can, both in accomplishing all the purposes we have, which is to keep the postal service alive and well, because so many people depend on it, and to do so in a much more fiscally responsible way, and in every way in which that term might be understood, including the fairness of the payments of the fers fers. i yield the floor. ms. collins: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from maine. ms. collins: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i, too, want to comment on this issue of the prefunding for the health care benefits of future retirees. i think it's important to note that when the 2006 law was written that the postal service supported this provision because it recognized that it had a huge unfunded liability for future health benefits, and it knew that it was important to start putting money aside to ensure that at that time that those retirees needed to claim those benefits the money would be there and the promises would be therkept