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November 24, 2025

Toledo, OH – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) announced that three Northwest Ohio organizations have been awarded a combined total of more than $3.7 Million in new federal funding from the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families. These awards, made through the Responsible Fatherhood Program, will strengthen families by supporting fathers with tools for responsible parenting, healthy relationships, and economic stability.

The recipients are:


November 22, 2025
Washington, DC — Today, Co-Chairs of the bipartisan Congressional Ukraine Caucus, Representatives Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-09), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA-01), Mike Quigley (D-IL-05), along with Representative Don Bacon (R-NE-02) Chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Cyber, Information Technologies, and Innovation issued the following statement in response to the reported peace plan between Ukraine and Russia:
“The proposed ‘peace plan’ for Ukraine appears to favor the interests of the aggressor — Dictator Vla
Issues: Trade

November 20, 2025
Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) and Congressman Bob Latta (OH-05) introduced the bipartisan Rear Admiral Alene Duerk Ship Renaming Act of 2025, legislation to honor one of Northwest Ohio’s most distinguished trailblazers in military history, Rear Admiral Alene Bertha Duerk, the first woman in United States Navy history to achieve Flag Rank, achieving the rank of Rear Admiral.
Rear Admiral Duerk, born in Defiance, Ohio, and raised in Holgate, Ohio charted a path of extraordinary service and groundbreaking leadershi

November 12, 2025

Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) voted against the Senate Amendment to H.R. 5371 – Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs. Upon her vote, Congresswoman Kaptur released the following statement decrying the corruption in the bill that would enrich Senators believed linked to the January 6 Insurrection plot, while failing to address the imminent health care crisis that will cause insurance rates to increase by 114% nationwide.


October 28, 2025

Washington, DC — Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, sent a


October 24, 2025

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-09), Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC-02), Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-09), and Congressman Tom Kean (R-NJ-07) introduced the bipartisan REPO Implementation Act of 2025. This new legislation builds off the REPO for Ukrainians Act, which was signed into law by President Joe Biden as part of the Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 and allowed for the repurposing of a sizeable subset of frozen Russian sovereign assets for Ukraine.


October 24, 2025
Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) and Congressman Thomas Massie (KY-04) reintroduced the Balancing Incentives Act of 2025, bipartisan legislation designed to level the playing field for America’s independent inventors and small businesses by strengthening protections for patent owners.
The Balancing Incentives Act amends US patent law to require a patent owner's consent before anyone can file a petition to challenge the patent through inter partes review or post-grant review at the Patent Tria

October 24, 2025
Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), a senior member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, joined Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture, Congresswoman Jahana Hayes (CT-05), and House Committee on Agriculture Ranking Member Angie Craig (MN-02), and 211 House Democrats in sending a letter to US Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, to urge the agency to use contingency reserve dollars to fund

October 20, 2025

Washington, DC — Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, sent a


October 16, 2025

Washington, DC – Today, Congressional Caucus Co-Chairs Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01), Congressman Mike Quigley (IL-05), Congressman Joe Wilson (SC-02), Ukraine Caucus Member Congressman Tom Suozzi (NY-03), and former House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Congressman Michael McCaul (TX-10) led a letter to President Donald J. Trump ahead of his White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.