Speech at the IMAGE national convention discussing Reagan budget cuts impacting programs benefiting Hispanic Americans · Les AuCoin Collection

Title: Speech at the IMAGE national convention discussing Reagan budget cuts impacting programs benefiting Hispanic Americans
Description: A speech by US Congressman Les AuCoin given at the national convention of IMAGE, an organization of Hispanic federal, state, and local government employees, on June 5, 1981. In his speech, Congressman AuCoin discussed the issue of the Reagan Administration proposing to cut several programs that benefited Hispanic Americans from the 1982 federal budget -- such as portions of the Occupational Safety and Health Adinistration (OSHA), bilingual education and migrant health, housing and social services -- all while increasing military spending. During his time in Congress, AuCoin had been a part of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.; This is one of a collection of digitized objects from the Les AuCoin Papers (MS.147) at the Pacific University Archives. AuCoin served in the Oregon House of Representatives (1971-1975) and in the United States House of Representatives from Oregon's 1st District (1975-1993).
Identifier: PUA_MS147_492
Creator: AuCoin, Les
Date: 1981
Date Created: June 5, 1981
Spatial Coverage: Unites States
Subject: Legislators--United States; United States--Economic policy--1981-1993; Budget process--Law and legislation--United States; Arms control; Washington County (Or.); Hispanic Americans
Source: Les AuCoin Papers, Pacific University Archives
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Type: Text

Item sets: AuCoin Writings

Media: PUA_MS147_492.pdf