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"I'm a lifelong businessman with a lot of experience in creating jobs, setting and meeting budgets, and basically using commonsense solutions to solve problems that you have in business," Huber said.

Huber also spent about 10 years on the board of a local medical center.

Huber said that jobs and the economy, federal spending and health care are the issues that come up most frequently in his talks with district voters. He opposed the economic stimulus law and said it hasn't created jobs, and he also opposes a "card check" proposal to ease union organizing and a "cap and trade" climate change plan the House passed in June.

"We need to do things to create jobs rather than destroy them," Huber said, adding that tax cuts for individuals and businesses are a "key piece of anything that has to be done in the Congress."

Huber opposes the Democratic-written health care bill that several House committees approved before the August recess. He'd like a health care bill to include provisions to overhaul medical liability laws and allow individuals to purchase insurance across state lines.

"A lot of people want health care reform; they just don't want the health care reform they're seeing coming out of Washington, D.C.," he said.

According to a CQ study, Dahlkemper this year has sided with her party 90 percent of time on votes that essentially divide the two parties. She voted for the economic stimulus plan but opposed the climate change bill.

Dahlkemper, a member of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's "Frontline" group of politically vulnerable Democrats, had $457,000 in her campaign account as July began.

CQ Politics is anticipating a competitive race in Pennsylvania's 3rd, one of 49 districts that voted Republican for president in 2008 but also backed a Democrat for the House. The current CQ rating of the race is Democrat Favored.

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