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

. >> >> good evening commissioners bill sanders and the requested action is that the board of education of the san francisco unified school district approve and support the actions necessary to allow the students to be exempt from the physical education as allowed by the code and articulates the requirement for every student to successfully complete two years, four semesters of physical education to graduate from high school. that is the requested action for the board of education. and i would like to recommend after consulting with legal counsel that we do move around a sentence on the policy. and you should have that in your folder. and it is under permanent exempts, and the sentence should read, number one, under permanent exempts, we recommending that the sentence read the student is age 16 years or older. and has been enrolled in grade ten for one or more academic years, and has successfully completed two years, four semesters of physical education in grades 9 to 12, it is simply rearranging the sentence to make it flow better. >> thank you. >> any public speakers? none. comments f

bill. senator bernie sanders wrote the bill. here's what it would have done. it would have expanded health care. it would have expanded education. fwof restored the cost of living increase. the bill would have paid for reproductive services for over 2,300 troops and expanded conversation for care givers. you know, care givers. you see those commercials on tv about wounded warriors, can you pay $19 bucks a month. good bless those people for what they're doing. the reason that is gaining strength in this country, is we are not taking care of our veterans legislatively the way we should. it was supported by nearly every veteran's group. republicans voted against the bill because the what? money. it's always about the money but it's never about stop and going to war, is it? the bill would cost over $21 billion in ten years. i think it's a small price to pay for a veterans, don't you in? republicans voted to send troops to war. they should do the right thing an vote to take care of them when they come home. they just can't feel it in their little e belly the way th

>> public citizen helped write a bill that was sponsored by california senator, barbara boxer, and vermont senator, bernie sanders the climate per tech shun act of 2013. it would establish a price on carbon so energy and things would be more expensive. to reflect that, 60% of the revenues raised would be refunded directly back to families to help offset the higher prices. but importantly what you would have is 40% of the revenues raised could be invested into billions of dollars of sustainable energy infrastructure. developing mass transit. lowering mass transit rates. financing distributed small kale renewable generation like roof top solar, and spending billions of dollars of years in to retrofitting buildings to be more energy efficient. the only way we can address climate change and get off of oil is to give families access to alternatives. we cannot produce our way to lower prices. during this oil boom, gasoline prices have gone up. we cannot produce our way to lower prices. we have to look for us is alternatives. >> great. we also have a question, vern also chimes in, and -- and that's not working, so i'm g

senator sanders says all big bills are for big business." guest: no. i do think there is a place for insurance companies in the landscape. bookron number one in my says it is going to be a mixed blessing. they will be able to participate in exchanges but they will have to evolve and transform themselves or they will become extinct like dinosaurs. bill was fork that them. if you like to know who the beneficiary of this bill is it is the american public. we will finally have a way everyone can get insurance. we will have better quality at lower costs. that is a big win. before you go, i want to ask you about another megatrends. the end of an employer sponsored health insurance? fewer than 20% of employees in the private sector will receive traditional and play sponsored health insurance. private companies now, there is no law requiring them to get insurance. they want good workers who prefer to get insurance through the employer. it is the best way of pooling, they do not get excluded. now you are going to have the exchange where anyone can get insurance

sanders. i want to turn to bill neely, who is live in perth, australia.hat can you tell us, bill, about this possible piece of debris that the chinese satellite has detected? >> on the one hand, it's a glimmer of hope. it's a satellite image from about four days ago. it's roughly 70 feet by ho feet. it's very difficult to tell from that image, anything that is consistent with a fuselage or a wing. i'm no aviation expert. i know some people have already been knocking this down and trying to get expectations down. we won't know. what we do know is that the third day of searching in this area has ended. six planes went out from here. the crews reported back. the visibility was poor. there was low cloud. underneath the cloud, sea fog, making finding anything on the surface of that choppy ocean really very difficult indeed. but as kerry pointed out, let's look at the positive side. reinforcements are arriving, particularly from china. china had two-thirds of the passengers on that plane. they're sending three planes, three ships, as well as a chinese ice break

bernie sanders and i worked on a bill, we have documented up to 110 billion worth of subsidies to oil and gas industries. six times the subsidy that goes to renewable energy sources, solar, wind and it's high time we start investing in the wind and sun and other forms of technology that can help us power our world that don't have hese ugly costly expensive expenses. so i have to ask the gentleman for his -- excuse me now, but thank you for doing this very important special order on raising questions around fracking. >> thank you, representative ellison for all the work you do with the progressive caucus. this is the special order tonight to talk about why we need to have safer practices around hydraulic fracturing or fracking in this country. for the 15.3 million people that live within a mile of the wells, for everyone who has to eventually have the effects of the environment and the health pollutants that are put out by this, there are bills produced in this body to make sure we can regulate and make sure they aren't exempt from clean air and clean water protection and disclose the

sanders, thanks so much for the latest tonight. it's daybreak in australia as the search has just resumed with first light on the other side of the world. nbc's bill neely is at the royal air force base near perth, australia, where the search flights originate. bill, what do you have? >> reporter: yes, good evening, david. a fourth day of searching about to begin here in the next few hours. half a dozen mostly australian aircraft will take off from here more in hope than expectation. but perhaps more optimistic than yesterday now that there is a new satellite image and new precise location to aim for and reinforcements have arrived. three chinese aircraft will take off from here. china also sending ships, there are japanese planes, there are ships from australia, and from britain and australia has asked the u.s. for a refuelling aircraft so those planes can spend longer than two hours over the site. but much depends on the visibility. nbc news was on board one plane yesterday. visibility really pretty poor. the forecast for today even worse. rain, wind, showers, and this will last for 36 to 48 hours. the area that they're searching is enormous. it

bill passed out of the house yesterday unanimously. it's now headed to the senate where it enjoys bipartisan support. senators ayotte, schatz, bernie sanders but i wonder if you did whether not you support this clarification in the religious exemption clause? >> i haven't read the language, but i will take a stroll look at it and they do know that it passed yesterday but i haven't read the built. built. >> will you get back to us with your opinion? thank you to the second question has to do with the administrations change in, or hhs is changing how you're handling the appeals process for medicare providers. the office of medicare hearings and appeals has recently taken the unprecedented and unorthodox step in no longer accepting medicare appeals for processing at the admission of law judge level. obviously, unconcerned about the current health care providers and current seniors who could be denied reimbursement, what effect that will have downstream, if you will, if they are not allowed their due process. and, of course, if we press forward the implications of the affordable care act, if we set the precedent that they just said will not al

sanders: mr. president, i would remind my colleague from louisiana that the vote on that bill was 56-41. there's a 15-point plurality. there was no one that wasn't here that would have voted for it, so 57 votes. because of the budget request for a budget point of order so we needed 60 votes. so a month jart o majority of ss support this, and i intend to work out to the senator from hugh lieu and to see that we get these three loops so they can have the coa comprehensive billo address it. mr. president, this is not a complicated issue. on veterans day and memorial day, every member in the senate and house dpz back t goes back r district and tells them how much they respect them and love that. and that's all fine and well. speeches are sporntd. are important. but at the end of the day, serving our veterans. it means voting for mams that will improve our lives. and i will not of disagree veteran programs are also expensive. they are expense sivment when somebody goes on its to bed and goes back without any legs or arms or dealing their hearing injury or p.t.s.d. or sexual suffering halt? yo

bill, our freezing rain structure is collapsing. >> i'm not arguing with you senator. i'm trying to clarify. >> infrastructure is the fastest way to create jobs. >> like the tennessee valley authority. sandersity. we are going to get a big. everybody is going to get a job working for the government to rebuild the infrastructure. >> it's not just working for the government. you can have private sector jobs as well. but the point is when real unemployment today is close to 13%, youth unemployment is at 20%, it is absolutely imperative that our highest priority is to put people back to work. >> all right. but they have got to want to work and incentive to work. what are the odds that you run for president? 10 to 1? 50 to 1? what is it. >> we will wait patiently and see, bill. it's still pretty early. >> appreciate you coming on. when we come right back, get feld and mcguirk as you have never seen them before. o'reilly and let why do people count on sunsweet prune juice to stay fit on the inside? it's made only from prunes, nothing else. it works, simple as that. it's a natural source of fiber and 5 essential vitamins. it's the smart choice for me. try sunsweet's amazing juices and new amazing

bills but taxes. this would ensure coverage for all and opponents say the free market is the most effective way to keep cost down. one of the most vocal advocate ises bernie sanders he recently chaired a meeting where richard burr pressed a canadian doctor on that issue. >> dr. martin, in your testimony, you note that canadian doctors exiting the public system for the private sector has had the effect of increasing waiting list for patients seeking public health care. why are doctors exiting the public system in canada? >> thank you for your question, senator. if i didn't express myself to make myself understood, i apologize. there are no doctors exiting the public system in canada. in fact we see a net influx of physicians in to the system over the last number of years. >> so essentially, thanks we're fine in canada. bernie sanders joins me now. appreciate you coming here. always a pleasure to have your insight. >> my pleasure. >> we heard the comparison to canada in the hearing. where else has a single payer system worked? >> i think the better question is how does it happen that the united states is the only country in the industrialized world that does not ha

bill is about. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate the rest of you also for being here today. chairman sanders made a very obvious statement. you-all are very easy to pick on. you probably have the hardest job in washington, d.c. and the biggest responsibility in the years to come. we are grateful for your service and grateful for what you do. as i understand, your response calls for an increase in budget and discretionary spending. our responsibilities in washington are to appropriate and to legislate, but we also have a responsibility in our committee, and that's oversight. some issues came up this morning. i think i want to address in my opening statement so that the secretary could address them later on today. as we heard from the wounded warrior project, one area that needs oversight is the care giver program. this program includes inconsistent decisions for eligibility, no quality assurance. the timeliness of decisions and no formal process to appeal the decision or eligibility for care giver assistance. i know many, including chairman sanders, who believe this program should be expanded

guest: it's an omnibus bill, and it addresses dental care to improving access to improving the back log process. and what we've seen with chairman sanders is a lot of activity, a lot of focus on veterans issues. we agree with him. when you appointed out the issue of advanced appropriations for v.a., the american legion led that a few years ago to make sure that v.a. gets funded two years in advance to make sure that veterans are not suffering. what he mentioned about military retirees not receiving their pensions on time, that's a major -- that's a real issue with real implications and real lives of real americans. we can't use that as a political football tos to around veterans' earned benefits and military retirees who have earned that benefit, and for the federal government, because they're incapable of balancing our budget, to put that burden on the shoulders of military retirees is wrong, and the legion is fighting that. we thank him for working that into his bill. host: let's go to south carolina on our line for republicans. mary, good morning. caller: good morning. how are you? host: good. go ahead. you're on with peter gaytan. c

bonus, sanders on wednesday received a letter critical of his performance from the city from what long term progressive activist -- >> ralph nader. >> when keer sten gillibrand's military assault billhee -- >> claire mccaskill. >> one of the three female senators to vote against it. this governor skipped cpac this week but his first 2014 ad in his reelection -- kate. >> scott walkers. >> air waves in wisconsin this week. this long time clinton family pal and a chief strategist in hilly clinton's -- jeff. >> mark pen. >> mark penn is correct. he'll joint microsoft this week. adding to the push family political dpien city -- jeff. >> land commissioner. >> that's correct. 300-point question. in a moment that his conserve tiff primary challenger likened to michael -- jeff. >> mat bevan. >> incorrect. you lose 300 points. mitch mcconnell brought a rifle on stage cpec and presented it whom? >> tom coburn. that changed the outcome of the game and kate wins it with 1400 points. jeff smith, the number one overall seed goes down in a close game with 1,000 and norm at 800. this was a very close game and that means, kate, that you are one step closer to becoming the first ever up against the c

guest: it's an omnibus bill, and it addresses dental care to improving access to improving the back log process. and what we've seen with chairman sanders lot of activity, a lot of focus on veterans issues. we agree with him. when you appointed out the issue of advanced appropriations for v.a., the american legion led that a few years ago to make sure that v.a. gets funded two years in advance to make sure that veterans are not suffering. what he mentioned about military retirees not receiving their pensions on time, that's a major -- that's a real issue with real implications and real lives of real americans. we can't use that as a political football tos to around veterans' earned benefits and military retirees who have earned that benefit, and for the federal government, because they're incapable of balancing our budget, to put that burden on the shoulders of military retirees is wrong, and the legion is fighting that. we thank him for working that into his bill. host: let's go to south carolina on our line for republicans. mary, good morning. caller: good morning. how are you? host: good. go ahead. you're on with peter gaytan. caller

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bill. talking about that 97-0 vote yesterday. we have about 15 minutes left to talk about the senate's all-night session on climate change. we want to get your thoughts. sander is waiting in shelbyville, indiana on our line for independents. sandra, good morning. caller: it was before the sin nominated -- before the tsunami hit. i asked an older science teacher if this would have an effect on our weather and she said yes. when the tsunami hit, when the earthquake that caused the tsunami, it was so violent it tilted the earth a little bit further. since then we have had several really strong earthquakes to tilt us even further. she told me that tropical plants had been found deep under the arctic and antarctica ice caps. at one time, they were in an area where it was tropical. she said every thousand years, the earth makes a complete turn and the shifting of the magnetic pole and the tilting does have an effect on our weather. host: you seem pretty interested in this issue, did you watch any of the all-night session? caller: i tried host:. host: what he think about what the senator said? caller: i think it is climate change. they're going to keep saying it in

bill, and that is what my amendment would do. now, this v.a. clinic legislation was in the sanders veterans bill last week, and it was in the burr alternative. it was in both the democratic and the republican veterans packages. neither of those packages passed. the sanders bill was defeated on a budget point of order, which i supported, because i don't think it's properly paid for and is sustainable both in terms of our budget and, even more importantly for veterans, how the veteran system works and handles its current patient load. the burr bill never even got a vote. we have disagreements about those larger packages. those are real substantial disagreements. but in the midst of that, mr. president, i would hope we can agree to what we can agree on. and these v. clinics certainly -- and these v.a. clinics certainly fall into that category. we have cleared all objections to this v.a. clinic piece specifically. we have addressed all issues having to do with these v.a. clinics, in part through my amendment at the desk. the only possible objection i know of is the fact that a larger p

details of that bill -- and the details do matter, that we don't come together on something we agree on. we can't accomplish a few important steps at a time. now, perhaps senator sanders thinks if we do this, somehow it takes away momentum for his larger bill. i think that's nonsense. these 27 clinics in 18 states, they are important, but they are a trivial part of that broader bill. they are a trivial part of all of the proposals in that broader bill. i don't think it takes away any momentum in any way, shape or form for that broader bill. i'll continue to be just as committed and just as interested to v.a. health care issues and working down the claims backlog and everything else. these clinics are a tiny part of that. so he doesn't lose any advantage. he doesn't lose any momentum. but we could move forward on something we do agree on and build from there, and i think that is more reasonable, and i think that is more constructive. there is literally no disagreement among any of us in this body about these clinics. i have worked hard with several other colleagues to address every question and every concern out there. the amendment at the desk erases some of those con