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...five it now claims are the state's smallest delegation since the 1850s. A politically conservative state, it is perhaps no coincidence that John Wayne was born in Iowa and Ronald Reagan once broadcast from there. And its overwhelmingly Republican delegation in Congress could become more so if Jim Lightfoot can unseat native Hawkeye and lone Democratic Congressman Tom Harkin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: IOWA | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...LIGHTFOOT (R) SENATE CHALLENGER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: IOWA | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: IOWA | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...Waco hearings, said Iowa Republican Jim Lightfoot, have amounted to "a media circus for a few people to drive a political agenda and for some new members of Congress to gain a degree of notoriety at the expense of a lot of others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICAN DISGUST | 7/28/1995 | See Source »

Davis was hired last year by a rambunctious school board with five new members and a taste for reform. New member Stephanie Lightfoot, 43, was the first to survey the damage and propose E.A.I. as an antidote. "I was worried that we might only be able to do things piecemeal or halfway and not get it all done," she says. "We are hiring E.A.I. to assist us in implementing our strategic plan in a comprehensive way." Several members visited E.A.I. schools, talked to teachers and parents there and came away impressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Schools for Profit | 10/17/1994 | See Source »

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