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July 1, 2016

Winners to Receive American Flag Flown Over US Capitol


June 30, 2016
WASHINGTON, DC– Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) heralded the announcement by the federal Department of Homeland Security that Ottawa County will receive $102,149 in homeland security funds to assist local governments and law enforcement departments plan, equip, train and exercise to “prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from acts of terrorism and other catastrophic events.”
Funding for the State of Ohio totaled $18,626,391.
“We live in a dangerous world,” said Kapt

June 30, 2016
WASHINGTON, DC– Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) heralded the announcement by the federal Department of Homeland Security that Erie County will receive $106,909 in homeland security funds to assist local governments and law enforcement departments plan, equip, train and exercise to “prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from acts of terrorism and other catastrophic events.”
Funding for the State of Ohio totaled $18,626,391.
“We live in a dangerous world,” said Kaptur

June 30, 2016
WASHINGTON, DC– Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) heralded the announcement by the federal Department of Homeland Security that Toledo and Lucas County will receive $155,102 in homeland security funds to assist local governments and law enforcement departments plan, equip, train and exercise to “prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from acts of terrorism and other catastrophic events.”
Funding for the State of Ohio totaled $18,626,391.
“We live in a dangerous world,”

June 30, 2016
WASHINGTON, DC– Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) heralded the announcement by the federal Department of Homeland Security that Lorain County will receive $111,669 in homeland security funds to assist local governments and law enforcement departments plan, equip, train and exercise to “prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from acts of terrorism and other catastrophic events.”
Funding for the State of Ohio totaled $18,626,391.
“We live in a dangerous world,” said Kapt

June 29, 2016

Directed to Cleveland & Cuyahoga County
WASHINGTON, DC– Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) heralded the announcement by the federal Department of Homeland Security that Cleveland and Cuyahoga County will receive $4,273,896 in homeland security funds to assist local governments and law enforcement departments plan, equip, train and exercise to “prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from acts of terrorism and other catastrophic events.”
Funding for the State of Ohio totaled $18,626,391.


June 29, 2016
Kaptur: Postal Banking, Reverse Sorting Facility Closures
CLEVELAND – Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) last night joined a coalition of local Cleveland community leaders at a special hearing calling for improvements to the U.S. Postal Service, where she highlighted her ideas on co-locating traditional banking services in existing Cleveland post offices and a return to traditional mail delivery standards.
“In many ways this is a management challenge,” said Rep. Kaptur.

June 24, 2016
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) recently joined nearly 200 of her Democratic House colleagues, including Congressman John Lewis (D-Georgia), and Ohio’s Congresswomen Marcia Fudge and Joyce Beatty, in a historic ‘sit-in’ of the House of Representatives to demonstrate on behalf of a debate and vote on reasonable gun control measures.
"I am proud to join with fellow Democrats to say 'enough is enough,' said Kaptur on Thursday.

June 22, 2016

Deadline is July 19, 2015

Toledo, Ohio– Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) encourages small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small businesses engaged in aquaculture and private non-profits located in Ohio’s 9th congressional district and which suffered economic losses as a result of months of 2015’s extreme weather to consider applying for low-interest disaster loans from the federal Small Business Administration, or SBA.


June 22, 2016

Video of Appropriations Debate
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) today sought to find a bipartisan compromise to a pending terrorist ‘No Fly, No Buy’ amendment before the annual appropriations measure to fund the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2016. Her attempt at a compromise was rebuffed on a voice vote after a lively debate, and the amendment was defeated, 31-16.
Kaptur attempted to work out compromise language on her colleague Rep.