[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 26 (Tuesday, March 4, 1997)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E368]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          TRIBUTE TO LOS ANGELES CITY COUNCILMAN MARVIN BRAUDE

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                          HON. HENRY A. WAXMAN

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, March 4, 1997

  Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in 
recognizing the extraordinary career of Los Angeles City Councilman 
Marvin Braude. After 32 years of dedicated service, Councilman Braude 
will soon return to private life. The city's 11th district, which he 
has so capably served, overlaps my own district, and includes 
communities such as Pacific Palisades, Brentwood, and West Los Angeles.
  During his eight terms in office, Councilman Braude has been a 
champion of the environment, a crusader for government efficiency, and 
a source of wisdom in the development of local public policy. As an 
elected official, he has been a true renaissance man, at various times 
in his career serving as chair of the city's Finance and Revenue 
Committee, the Environmental Quality and Waste Management Committee, 
and the Public Safety Committee. He has also helped formulate city 
policy in information technology, public works, and zoning, and land 
use issues.
  A lifelong conservationist and ardent bicyclist, Councilman Braude's 
leadership made possible the creation of a 50,000-acre public park 
within the city's limits in the Santa Monica Mountains. This area has 
been designated as permanent recreational open space and is a beautiful 
natural oasis within the city's borders.
  Councilman Braude's legislative accomplishments have included 
authorship of the city's pioneering ordinances to protect nonsmokers 
from secondhand tobacco smoke. He has been honored for his work by the 
American Cancer Society, the American Lung Association, the League of 
California Cities, and the California Department of Health Services.
  Councilman Braude has also had extraordinary success in sponsoring 
ballot measures to limit commercial density and to prohibit oil 
drilling along the city's pristine beaches. In addition, he has been 
the city council's leader in opening city government to the public and 
encouraging the participation of all citizens. And, he increased 
government accountability by creating the zero-based budgeting process 
that is now used as a management model by many municipalities.
  Councilman Braude's commitment to the environment includes serving on 
the governing board of the South Coast Air Quality Management District, 
helping to clean the air for 12,000,000 people in southern California. 
he is also the city's strongest advocate of electric vehicle technology 
and is helping to bring the entire automotive industry into the future 
by making the city of Los Angeles a friendly environment for electric 
vehicles.
  Like many of our colleagues, Councilman Braude came to government 
from the private sector. he founded Capital for Small Business in Los 
Angeles, and was a founding member of the board of directors of 
Scientific Data Systems, which later became the computer division of 
Xerox Corp.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask you and my colleagues to join me in honoring 
Councilman Braude for his full and fruitful career in public service, 
and in wishing him continued happiness and success in all future 
endeavors.

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