A video of US Representatives Les AuCoin and Peter DeFazio hosting a small, televised press conference regarding their bill, H.R.4728 - To amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act by designating a segment of the Klamath River in Oregon as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. The two took questions from reporters who called in over the phone.
A video featuring footage of the 1990 Democratic Business Forum in Oregon during the 1990 Senate election. In a speech, Democratic candidate Harry Lonsdale expressed his hope to win against Republican incumbent Senator Mark Hatfield, discussing topics such as abortion rights, the timber industry, and the national debt, among other topics.
A video recording featuring news coverage of funding for the Strategic Defense Initiative (AKA Star Wars) program and stealth bombers. US Congressman Les AuCoin notably appears at the 0:40 and the 3:00 minute marks, criticizing the Star Wars program and advocating for the funding to be spent elsewhere. This news story is likely from 1990.
A video recording primarily featuring a 1990 ABC News documentary special with Peter Jennings on gun violence and gun control in the United States. The documentary was made a year after the January 17, 1989 Cleveland Elementary School shooting in Stockton, California. In a Good Morning America news program in the later half of the recording, U.S. Congressman Les AuCoin notably appears in a joint interview with Wayne LaPierre on the topic of the Brady Bill.
A video recording of US Senator Ron Wyden testifying at a hearing on the Oregon Health Plan, a series of state health care and Medicaid reforms that spanned from 1989 to 1995.
A video primarily featuring footage of Representatives Les AuCoin and Peter DeFazio testifying at a hearing on the Oregon Health Plan, a series of state health care and Medicaid reforms that spanned from 1989 to 1995. Other video clips included in the recording include a news story on Lee Atwater and footage of a presidential press conference in Geneva during the Gulf War. The video clips featured in the recording are from the early 1990s.
A video featuring footage of US House of Representatives floor remarks on an amendment that proposed banning desecration of the US flag in the early 1990s. According to US Congressman Les AuCoin and other representatives, the amendment put the first amendment of the Bill of Rights in jeopardy.
A video primarily featuring a US House of Representatives floor speech by Congressman Les AuCoin advocating for a resolution that affirmed and enforced an international moratorium on illegal high seas driftnet fishing. AuCoin argued that the H. W. Bush administration had not adequately ensured that the moratorium was enforced. The video was likely recorded in the early 1990s.
A video recording that includes a brief clip of US Congressman Les AuCoin advocating for women's rights on the House floor and a seperate pro-Oregon timber industry promotional clip. The clips both likely date to the early 1990s. The early 1990s in Oregon was marked by a declining timber industry, including a large-scale debate between environmentalists (including members of the ESA Committee, the "God Squad") concerned about protecting the habitat of the endangered northern spotted owl and the members of the logging industry who argued that the Endangered Species Act and its regulations reduced the number of jobs for timber workers.
A video recording of KATU 2 and Northwest News news coverage of Harry Lonsdale's announcement to run for one of Oregon's US Senate seats in the 1992 race against fellow challenger US Congressman Les AuCoin and incumbent Bob Packwood.
A video featuring 1991 news coverage and a group interview with US Representatives Les AuCoin, Susan Molinari, Harley Staggers, and Jack Fields on the of the Brady Bill. Officially named the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, the Brady Bill did not officially pass into law until 1993.
A video recording primarily featuring two interviews with US Congressman Les AuCoin on gun control and the Brady Bill of 1991 (officially named the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, it was not officially passed into law until 1993) which proposed a five-day waiting period for the purchase of handguns. AuCoin, who originally opposed the bill, advocated for the bill as a form of gun control following the news of Ronald Reagan's support the bill.
A video featuring a House floor speech by U.S. Congressman Les AuCoin advocating for a bill to extend unemployment benefits for Oregonians affected by mass layoffs, as President H. W. Bush traveled through Europe. The video also includes news coverage on the 1991 national luxury tax, especially the automobile luxury tax, enacted and signed by Congress and President H. W. Bush.
A video of the grand opening of the new Fort Clatsop Visitor Center near Astoria, Oregon, on August 28, 1991. Notably, the two candidates of the 1992 US Senate election in Oregon, US Congressman Les AuCoin and US Senator Bob Packwood, were among the guests asked to give a dedication speech. As a Congressman, AuCoin had appropriated funds for the new center, delivering his speech at the 32:30 minute mark.
A video of U.S. Congressman Les AuCoin hosting a small, televised press conference from Washington, D.C. addressing how legislation that extended unemployment benefits was likely initially defeated by President H. W. Bush for not declaring the unemployment crisis an emergency. He also discussed the Bureau of Land Management's Cy Jamison's decision to petition the Secretary of Interior to convene the "God Squad" (environmentalist members of the ESA Committee) during the early 1990s logging crisis. AuCoin took questions from Oregon reporters who called in over the phone.
A video featuring footage of U.S. representatives Les AuCoin and Peter DeFazio hosting a televised press conference addressing legislation they had helped introduce to Congress that proposed giving states the right to levy a tariff on the export of raw logs, most funds of which would directly go back into the state by investing in communities suffering from the declining logging industry. For most of the program, DeFazio and AuCoin took questions from reporters who called in over the phone.
A video primarily featuring Les AuCoin giving two short House floor speeches in November 1991. In the first speech, AuCoin advocates for proposed terms of renewing China's most favored nation status "only if China releases pro-democracy demonstrators imprisoned in China and Tibet, does not sell missiles to Syria and Iran, makes significant progress in improving human rights, preventing nuclear proliferation, removing trade barriers to US products, and ending the export of prison-made goods." In his second speech, AuCoin mentions President George H. W. Bush's 1991 trip to Rome and asserts that Oregonians would have preferred for the president to "have been in Roseburg, not Rome" to focus on extending unemployment benefits and improving economic security.
A video of a US House of Representatives floor speech by Congressman AuCoin advocating for a national "motor voter" registration bill which proposed to allow Americans to register vote when they registered at the DMV. This video was recorded in 1991 or 1992.
A video featuring various televised programs from the early 1990s relating to Les AuCoin. House floor remarks are shown from the beginning of the video to the 9:39 minute mark. At the 2:57 minute mark, US Congressman Les AuCoin gives a speech explaining his decision to vote against a conference report on the basis of an outdated, Cold War-era high military spending budget and a presidential veto threat due to an overrided regulation that prohibited service women from purchasing abortion services abroad. From the 9:40 to the 40:58 minute marks, an unnamed documentary on the defense and state departments' report titled "The Soviet-Cuban connection in Central America and the Carribean," the history of the Cuban missile crisis and the relationship between Cuba and the Soviet Union, the United States' interest in Cuba and concerns about security, and the significance of the Florida Straits and Yucatan Channel in U.S. foreign trade. From the 40:59 minute mark on is a discussion between Dr. Andres Vargas Gomez, writer and producer of the film, and Professor Richard Raleigh on the topic of the documentary.
A video featuring news coverage on extended unemployment benefits being offered to dislocated timber workers, especially those in the process of retraining for other industries. By the early 1990s, Oregon's once powerful timber industry saw mill closures and large layoffs. In the video, various laid off timber workers express their gratitude for the extended benefits. A reporter shares how US Representatives Les AuCoin and Peter DeFazio were among those who were in contact with the White House for months to have the benefits extended, with the Bush administration vetoing multiple pieces of legislation. At the 1:15 minute mark, AuCoin states that "unemployment benefit is not welfare, it's not a handout, it's not a stopgap measure... that is a Stone Age mentality that the Congress has resisted, that Peter DeFazio and I have resisted, and that today we celebrate the victory over in the passage of this legislation."
A video of a Les AuCoin campaign advertisement for the 1992 Senate election in Oregon. In 1992, US Congressman Les AuCoin campaigned for incumbent Bob Packwood's US Senate seat, ultimately losing to Packwood. The ad, officially titled "Next," highlighted AuCoin's goals to decrease military spending abroad, reform education, and fight outsourcing in the economy.
A video of a Les AuCoin campaign ad for the 1992 Senate election in Oregon. In the video, AuCoin states: "Whatever else you've heard in this campaign, there are some fundamental values at stake. For me, they come down to what sort of country we want to be. I believe in a country where the Supreme Court defends, not attacks, a woman's right to choose. Where the gun lobby is beaten, and illegal handguns are kept off our streets, and where a growing economy means family wage jobs for working Americans. On Tuesday, let's look beyond the name calling. Judge me on the values you and I have always shared." In 1992, US Congressman Les AuCoin campaigned for Bob Packwood's US Senate seat, ultimately losing to Packwood. This ad was produced following a swarm of attack ads against the AuCoin campaign.
A video featuring footage of a debate in Grants Pass between the candidates in the 1992 Senate Democratic primary election in Oregon, US Congressman Les AuCoin, businessman and scientist Harry Lonsdale, and lawyer Joe Wetzel. Topics discussed in the debate included the House Bank scandal, campaign spending, defense spending, the decline of the timber industry, and abortion rights, among other topics.
A video recording of Les AuCoin in a small debate between Harry Lonsdale at the Democratic Business Forum during the 1992 Senate race in Oregon. While AuCoin defeated Lonsdale in the Democratic primary, he ultimately lost in the general election against incumbent Bob Packwood.
