Digital Exhibits

House consideration on the United States-China Act of 1992 video recording

A video compilation mostly featuring footage of a session of Congress in which members of the U.S. House of Representatives discuss various topics, including what is presumably the United States-China Act of 1992 (S. 2808 and H.R. 5318), which proposed that the the United States should avoid extending normal standards of trade with China until the Chinese government recognized the deaths and released imprisoned protestors of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. US Congressman Les AuCoin appears at the 1:31:50 minute mark, stating: "This bill does not kill MFN. Under the Pease-Mitchell Bill, Most Favored Nation status is right there for the taking for the Chinese government. They just have to do two things: account for the missing pro-democracy protesters from Tiananmen Square, and release the others who have been rotting in prisons after that bloody massacre at the square.... How can any freedom loving senator or congressman ignore the plight and the bravery of the Chinese protestors in Tiananmen Square?" At the 1:34:40 minute mark, AuCoin again appears, this time asking a question relating to a budget bill affecting the city of Portland and the US Forest Service. From the 1:34:40 minute mark to the end of the video, various clips of television programs are featured, including advertisements and ABC World News Tonight and Nightline. Coverage of the candidates of the 1992 Senate primary election in Oregon, Les AuCoin and Harry Lonsdale, appear around the 1:52:00 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_035

1992

United States. Congress. House.

Legislators--United States

Oregon

United States

(1 video file: 147 min, 25 s)

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

Pacific University Archives

MP4