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"Les AuCoin Our Congressman" 1986 campaign pamphlet

A pamphlet from US Congressman Les AuCoin's 1986 re-election campaign for Oregon's 1st District. The pamphlet features a candid portrait of Congressman AuCoin and a photograph of him and his family. Additionally, the pamphlet includes a description of his background and a list of his then recent accomplishments in Congress, including his work that stopped the federal government from dumping liquid nuclear waste into the soil in Hanford, Washington; passing legislation to help the US Coast Guard build a rescue helicopter station in Newport, Oregon; using his role in the Appropriations Committee to allocate $60 million in federal highway funds that created jobs in eastern Washington County; his help in passing a timber contract relief bill that prevented the bankruptcy of dozens of Oregon mills and the loss of hundreds of millworker jobs; using his role in the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee to help establish Navy contracts for Portland shipyards; and convincing President Ronald Reagan and Congress to pass "the AuCoin amendment" which banned the testing of anti-satellite weapons.

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).

Friends of Les AuCoin

1986

United States. Congress. House.

Legislators--United States

Political campaigns--United States--1980-1990.

Oregon

United States

PUA_MS147_569

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Les AuCoin Papers, Pacific University Archives

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