The title of the item — by Washington Post blogger Dylan Matthews — is “Congressional candidates have policy ideas, too. Here are 13 to watch.”

Excerpts:

Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), making House bid: Break up the big banks

Gabbard, a 31-year-old Honolulu city councilor who’d be the first Hindu in Congress, is running to succeed Rep. Mazie Hirono (who’s challenging Lingle for the Senate). The 2nd District covers all of the state except the urban sections of Honolulu. While many candidates, especially Democrats support bringing back the Glass-Steagall law that separated commercial and investment banks, Gabbard goes a step further and calls for a cap on bank size that would break up firms like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan. She also wants a ban on naked credit default swaps, which allow banks to bet on mortgages they don’t actually own.

Linda Lingle (R-Hawaii), running for Senate: Mend, but don’t end, Obamacare

Lingle, who was Hawaii’s quite popular governor from 2003 to 2011, is running to succeed Sen. Daniel Akaka, a Democrat who’s retiring after 22 years. Unlike most Republican candidates, she doesn’t call for the Affordable Care Act’s complete repeal, instead proposing a more modest set of changes (though she does support repeal over retaining the whole law). Specifically, she wants to repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), an independent panel that would evaluate the effectiveness of Medicare treatments, the taxes on medical device manufacturers and the cuts to Medicare advantage. She also wants to see more medical malpractice reform and allow catastrophic care and high deductible plans in the state health exchanges. None of these is new, per se, but it’s interesting to see a Republican candidate taking a “mend it, don’t end it” approach to the ACA.

—Chad Blair