[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 76 (Thursday, June 3, 2004)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6456-S6458]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

      By Mr. COCHRAN (for himself, Mr. Frist, and Mr. Leahy):
  S.J. Res. 38. A joint resolution providing for the appointment of Eli 
Broad as a citizen regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian 
Institution; to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
  Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. President, today I am introducing a Senate Joint 
Resolution appointing a citizen regent to the Board of Regents of the 
Smithsonian Institution. I am pleased that my fellow Smithsonian 
Institution Regents, Senators Frist and Leahy, are cosponsors.
  The Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents recently recommended the 
following distinguished individual for appointment to a 6-year term on 
the on the Board: Eli Broad of California.
  I ask unanimous consent that his biography and the text of the joint 
resolution be printed in the Record.

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  There being no objection, the biography and the joint resolution were 
ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows:

                               Eli Broad

       Eli Broad is a renowned business leader who built two 
     Fortune 500 companies from the ground up over a five-decade 
     career in business. He is chairman of AIG Retirement Services 
     Inc. (formerly SunAmerica Inc.) and founder-chairman of KB 
     Home (formerly Kaufman and Broad Home Corporation).
       Today, he is focused on philanthropy. The Broad family's 
     commitment to philanthropy and community is both deep and 
     wide-ranging. It includes ongoing leadership roles in art, 
     education, science and civic development.
       Avid supporters of contemporary art, Mr. Broad and his 
     wife, Edythe, have created one of the worlds finest 
     collections. Since 1984, The Broad Art Foundation has 
     operated an active ``lending library'' of its extensive 
     collection to more than 400 museums and university galleries 
     worldwide. In 2001-2003, an exhibition of the Broads' 
     collection was shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 
     the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, the Museum of 
     Fine Arts in Boston; and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, 
     Spain. Mr. Broad was the founding chairman of the board of 
     trustees of The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, 
     and is currently a trustee and member of the executive 
     committee of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where the 
     Broads recently announced a major gift to build The Broad 
     Contemporary Art Museum.
       In 1999, the Broads founded The Broad Foundation, whose 
     mission is to dramatically improve urban public education 
     through governance, management and labor relations. In its 
     first five years, the Foundation has committed over $400 
     million to support new ideas and innovative leadership in the 
     nation's largest urban school systems. The Foundation also 
     has launched four national flagship initiatives--The Broad 
     Prize for Urban Education, The Broad Center for 
     Superintendents, The Broad Residency in Urban Education and 
     The Broad Institute for School Boards. Mr. Broad has said, 
     ``I can imagine no more important contribution to our 
     country's future than a long-term commitment to improving 
     urban K-12 public schools.''
       In 2001, The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Foundation created the 
     Broad Medical Research Program, which seeks to stimulate 
     innovative research that will lead to progress in the 
     prevention, therapy or understanding of inflammatory bowel 
     disease.
       In June 2003, in an unprecedented partnership with the 
     Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University and 
     Whitehead Institute, the Broads announced the founding gift 
     to create The Eli and Edythe Broad Institute for biomedical 
     research. The Institute's aim is to realize the promise of 
     the human genome to revolutionize clinical medicine and to 
     make knowledge freely available to scientists around the 
     world.
       The Broads have been tireless advocates of Los Angeles, 
     their adopted hometown. Committed to the belief that all 
     great cities need a vibrant center, Mr. Broad is currently 
     leading the effort to turn Los Angeles' Grand Avenue into a 
     truly ``grand avenue,'' to rival the main boulevards of the 
     world's greatest cities. In 1996, he and Mayor Richard 
     Riordan took on the task of raising sufficient funds to build 
     the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, which 
     opened to worldwide acclaim in October 2003.
       Strong believers in higher education, the Broad Foundations 
     have made a major contribution to the School of Arts and 
     Architecture at UCLA toward the construction of The Broad Art 
     Center, designed by Richard Meier. Mr. Broad is a member of 
     the board of trustees of CalTech, where the Broads gave the 
     cornerstone gift to create the Broad Center for the 
     Biological Sciences, designed by James Freed. Mr. Broad also 
     served as chairman of the board of trustees of Pitzer College 
     and vice chairman of the board of trustees of the California 
     State University system. In 1991, the Broads endowed The Eli 
     Broad College of Business and The Eli Broad Graduate School 
     of Management at Michigan State University, from which Mr. 
     Broad graduated cum laude in 1954.
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                              S.J. RES. 38

       Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
     United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in 
     accordance with section 5581 of the Revised Statutes (20 
     U.S.C. 43), the vacancy on the Board of Regents of the 
     Smithsonian Institution, in the class other than Members of 
     Congress, resulting from the death of Barber B. Conable, Jr., 
     is filled by the appointment of Eli Broad of California. The 
     appointment is for a term of 6 years, beginning upon the date 
     of enactment of this joint resolution.

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