Word: assaults
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Carmichael, an Indiana Gas Co. lobbyist, wants to stop what he sees as a G.O.P. assault on working families. He promises to protect Medicare, Social Security, Head Start, college loans and the environment. But he also pledged not to run a negative campaign, then blasted incumbent McIntosh for his Medicare vote [see issues page] and charged him with taking campaign contributions from "fat cats...
McIntosh, for seven years an aide to Reagan and Bush, has backed bills to streamline safety regulations for home construction and loosen clean-air and endangered-species rules. A shoving incident on a flight in May resulted in assault-and-battery charges (later dropped), but the "misunderstanding," as McIntosh calls it, is not expected to hurt his chances next week, in this Republican district...
Political-science professor Houseman focuses on tax breaks for businesses to encourage research and development, a fair foreign-trade policy and providing job-skills training. He supports strong environmental protection, the repeal of the assault-weapons ban and unrestricted access to abortion. A quirky candidate in a straight-arrow part of Indiana, Houseman would be only the third Democrat to represent this district in the past 50 years...
Lightfoot won Tom Harkin's House seat when Harkin decided to run for the Senate; now he's pursuing a less decorous method of replacing Harkin. Lightfoot would bring a long record of conservative voting with him. He opposed the ban on assault weapons and drafted an amendment to limit firearms recordkeeping. He favors more defense spending and--perhaps because he began life in an orphanage--is staunchly antiabortion...
...liberal in an age of conservatives, Ward was one of only 13 freshman Democrats elected in 1994. A former Peace Corps volunteer (he served in West Africa), Ward was in the Kentucky House for five years and has strong support in this traditionally Democratic district. He wants an assault-weapons ban, universal health care, protection of abortion rights and a welfare system that would let people trade benefits for jobs and provide more help directly to children...