[applause] >> next, i would call -- mark connors, and solomon brown. >> hi. so i work for tenderloin housing clinic, and am not a resident of san francisco. i was born and raised here but can't afford to live here wit hthh the budget cuts. i went from paying no medical to $250 for medical. i live in oakland. i don't like oakland. sorry. i don't. it is just a lot of crime. i have been going through a lot. i have to take her out of school. parents with guns, all kinds of stuff. she can't go to school here. i live out here. i pay for them to go to school here. a mix-up, in between. us getting raises would help, and i could come back to my native. thank you. [applause] >> i am mark conners from treasure island, secretary for the good neighbors -- and i wanted to say what the young man said earlier. we have a lot of youth, and fund the care center for the independent youth. sometimes the youth get in trouble and we need reseources for the island. from time to time, we have crime waves. they need more local services and support on the island. we don't have a grocer

they'd go wherever music was, all over the country, and they found people like solomon burke and ray charles and ruth brown and lavern baker, mickey guitar baker -- no relation. but they found these people, and so they were open to it. it is not like that anymore. tavis: so they did not sign you. >> they did not, but don costa tavis: don -- exactly. >> with abc paramount, and that was a place i went because paul anka, i loved his song, "diana," and i was kind of curious. first of all, paul was only seven months older than i, so okay, he's a teenager. if he could do it, i could do it. then i went in and i wanted to know what made that sort of -- kind of hook in "diana." i wanted to ask the producer, so he had me in, listened to my songs, "let me hear the next one, let me hear the next one," and then i think okay, i don't have any more, and then he offered me a contract. it was amazing. i am 15. tavis: yeah, exactly, i was about to say that -- at 15. so did, and maybe i missed this in the book, but what did jerry and ahmet ertegun ever say anything to you years later about not signing you? >> well, they want

privileges of the floor be granted to the following members of senator franken's staff: whitney brown and joel solomon for the rest of today's session. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: the second ^s to ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration en bloc of the following resolutions which were submitted earlier today: senate resolutions 520, 521, 522, and 523. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the resolutions en bloc. mr. whitehouse: i ask unanimous consent that the resolutions be agreed to, the preamble be agreed toes, the motion to reconsider be laid on the table en bloc, with no intervening action or debate, and any statements repeated to the resolutions be -- any statements related to the resolutions be printed in the record at the appropriate place as if read. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: in conclusion, mr. president, i might note that senate resolution 520 recognized the 103rd anniversary of the founding of the naacp, which for reasons that i will discuss later, is an interest