Southwest Colorado Oral Histories

Entry ID: 183

Institution: Center of Southwest Studies

  • Website: swcenter.fortlewis.edu
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  • Medium(s): Video

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    Narrator: Ben Nighthorse Campbell

    Date: January 27, 1993

    Location Tags: None

    Topic Tags: Government, Water, Medicine, Protected Parks/Outdoor Areas

    Description: Legislators--United States--1993 Television in politics--1993 Colorado--History; About Narrator: No info provided.; Collection:U004 BASEMENT Room 024: Southwest Oral Histor ; Notes:In Focus program interview by former Colorado U.S. Senator Hank Brown with Senator Campbell and U.S. Congressman Scott McInnis. McInnis talks about water issues, the federal deficit, CO's Taxpayer's Bill of Rights (TABOR) as a model for national policy, and the boycott of Colorado businesses over the passage of the anti-LGBT amendmend 2 in 1992. Campbell talks about federal balanced budget legislation, healthcare proposals under the Clinton adminstration(Campbell doesn't think the votes are there for a national healthcare bill), job growth, the wilderness bill (S.1029 and H.R. 762), and a bill to turn Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument into a National Park (H.R. 1321). ;

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