Digital Exhibits

S3144 House floor remarks and vote footage video recording

A long video recording that features a session of Congress in which members of Congress discuss and vote on the Military Health Care Initiatives Act of 1992 (H.Res.689 and S.3114). US Congressman Les AuCoin advocates for this bill, which centered around service women's right to access abortion services abroad. AuCoin appears at the 5:30, 14:30, 20:20 and 28:00 minute marks, stating: "The White House was prepared to veto that bill, if this provision, which I authored, which provides service women stationed abroad the ability to use their dollars that they've earned to acquire abortion services. ... I do get emotional when it comes to protecting the rights of women in this country, whether they serve abroad or whether they're citizens of this country; and I do not like it when major legislation is vetoed because there is a simple protection for a woman's private right to choose included in that legislation." Footage of the vote on H.R. 2164 is also featured.

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_028

1992

United States. Congress. House.

Legislators--United States

Oregon

United States

(1 video file: 103 min, 50 s)

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

Pacific University Archives

MP4