. >> the name of the witness is april whalen. apparently, her child died in a swimming pool and was found by the child's grandfather who immediately administered cpr and called 911 miss what i -- police whalen was in a jays sent cell to miss anthony for a brief period of time. >> cindy anthony testified she did searches for chloroform on the internet. >> do you recall in march of 2008 you do any types of searches for any items that might include chloroform? >> yes. >> did you input the word into the google search engine, how to make chloroform? >> i don't recall putting in how to make chloroform. but i did google search chloroform. and we talked about it in my deposition. >> i don't want to be here. i don't want my sister to be here, my parents to be here. this is obviously just very emotionally draining and very difficult. >> based upon the reports that the court has reviewed, the court will find that the defendant is competent to continue to proceed. >> you of course would never admit to molesting your child, would you sir? >>

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whalen is a contributor to national review online. he served as deputy assistant attorney general as well as general counsel previously to this committee. mr. whalen earned his undergraduate and law degrees from harvard university. you may proceed. >> my thanks to senator layly and senator grassley for allowing me to testify. s. 598 is misleadingly titled the respect for marriage act. far from respecting marriage, this bill will empty the term of any core content. it would redefine marriage for purposes of federal law to include anything that any state now in the future recognizes as a marriage. the effect and the evidence purpose of the bill is how the federal government validates so-called same-sex marriage by requiring marriage for purposes of federal law any such union recognized as a marriage under state law. the bill would require taxpayers in the state that maintains traditional marriage laws to subsidize provision of federal benefits to same-sex unions in other states. further, the principles in both advocates of same-sex marr

kenneth whalen is with the memphis city school board of commissioners.ic behind delaying classes. >> hi, contessa. the logic is pretty clear. you can't get blood out of a turnip. the school board is being forced to try to operate without adequate funding. the board voted eight to one to delay the start of school, not cancel school, but to delay it until the requisite funding is received from the city council. that was done a couple days ago. that's where we are right now. >> are you saying you have no money if the city doesn't pay? >> no, that's an interesting -- there is an interesting funding formula in the state of tennessee, as you well know, and andrea knows as well. education funding in the united states is very complex. so that although the city talks about their contribution is only about 10% of our budget, according to state education funding, if we don't receive the entire 10%, then the state will cut off its funding of memphis city schools. so about $427 million from the state is at stake. >> councilwoman, what's the holdup? >> i really think

martin anderson, my colleague, my domestic counterpart, richard whalen, a great speech writer and thinker. this group of individuals put together, if you will, at mr. nixon's behest comprehensive programs. what ed said is very important. it is also important when you study president reagan, to whom i was quite close for a number of years prior to the presidency and then during the presidency. you have to understand that the man read and understood. and when ed said that president nixon read. he did read deeply, and he communed deeply with those who had specialized knowledge. he also wrote, and he wrote on tablets like that. that is exactly the way he wrote his note here. the asian speech from long island, his first inaugural address. all of these study habits, and these deep reading habits, and deep discussion and thinking habits are brought to bear in a way that we can't attribute to a lot of presidents that we have known, at least during my life time. that is not to say that the presidents weren't good, excellent or sometimes even great in their own right. but those that were the most s