Les AuCoin Collection

AuCoin House floor speeches on China's MFN status and extending unemployment benefits video recording

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.

This is a digitized version of an analog videorecording 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).

PUA_MS147_vid_068

November 1991

United States. Congress. House.

Legislators--United States

Oregon

United States

(1 video file: 5 min, 40 s)

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Pacific University Archives

MP4