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Costello is a conservative Democrat who doesn't fit the Democrat mold. An opponent of abortion and gun control, he also bucked the party by voting to keep the ban on gays in the military. Costello retains his liberal credentials because he is not afraid to raise taxes to cure deficit ills. Most important, he knows how to bring in millions of dollars to his district for public-works projects...
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...
...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...
Gilchrest's quixotic career includes heroic service in Vietnam--he received a Navy Commendation Medal--17 years teaching high school, and work as a forest ranger and barn builder. Noted for his fiscal conservatism, he has shown independence from the G.O.P. by backing the assault-weapons ban...