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December 1, 2025
Toledo, OH – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) released the following statement after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) failed to provide funding for Toledo Public Schools Head Start Program, causing the closure of the program effective immediately, today December 1st.

August 30, 2022

Washington, D.C. – Today, Representative Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) – Chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development – released the following statement on First Solar’s $185 million expansion in Northwest Ohio.


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October 27, 2022

Washington, D.C. – Today, Representative Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) – Chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development – released the following statement on First Solar’s $270 million investment in a research and development center in Perrysburg Township, Ohio.


June 2, 2022

Washington, D.C. – Today, Representative Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) – Co-Chair of the bipartisan House Auto Caucus – released the following statement on Ford’s plan to invest $1.5 billion to build an electric vehicle plant in Lorain County.


September 16, 2019

WASHINGTON — Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Co-Chair of the House Auto Caucus, released the following statement after nearly 50,000 General Motors (GM) employees went on strike after contract negotiations between their union the United Auto Workers (UAW) and GM stalled.


November 26, 2018

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Dean of the Ohio Delegation and longest-serving woman in Congress, today released the following statement on General Motors' decision to idle several North American manufacturing plants.


March 9, 2022

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) released the following statement on the House passage of the Fiscal Year 2022 federal funding bill. The legislation will now be sent to the Senate for final passage.


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December 12, 2018

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Dean of the Ohio Delegation, released the following statement after the passage of the bipartisan Farm Bill by the U.S. House of Representatives. The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 passed the Senate yesterday and it now heads to the President's desk.


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November 19, 2021

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) released the following statement after the House passed President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Act. The House-passed legislation – which includes Rep. Kaptur’s Great Lakes heavy icebreaker, and the Community Restoration and Revitalization Fund modeled after her Restoring Communities Left Behind Act – now moves to the Senate for consideration.


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November 16, 2017

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), today issued the following statement after voting no on H.R. 1, the Republicans' tax plan:

"The People's House let the American people down today with the hasty passage of a partisan tax bill, rammed through Congress without a single hearing.

"For all their talk of shedding light on their actions and an open transparent process, Republicans proved their primary interest is in serving their masters on Wall Street and corporate boardrooms.