Digital Exhibits

1992 Congress House floor remarks video recording

A video recording of a US Congress session in 1992 in which members of Congress discuss various topics, including unemployment, the Haitian Refugee Crisis, and the backlash in the United States following comments from a Japanese politician that criticized the American workforce, among other issues. Oregon Congressman Les AuCoin appears on the House floor at roughly 29:30, 1:00:50, 1:06:00, and 1:11:40, in which he advocates for a tax reform bill that aimed to reduce wealth inequality in the United States by offering tax credits to the middle class and imposing surtaxes on millionaires. The tax reform bill mentioned is likely H.R. 4210 of the 102nd Congress, the Tax Fairness and Economic Growth Act of 1992, which failed to pass after it was vetoed by President George H. W. Bush. AuCoin also criticizes Patrick Buchanan during one of his speeches on the floor. Footage of AuCoin's opponent in the 1992 US Senate election in Oregon, Bob Packwood, appears around the 33:25 minute mark.

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_021

1992

United States. Congress. House.

Legislators--United States

United States

(1 video file: 90 min, 18 s)

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

Pacific University Archives

MP4