Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-9), Chase Ritenauer, Mayor of Lorain, Ohio and Patrick Gallagher, United Steelworkers Sub-District Director for District 1, issued statements today following the release of Republic Steel’s official notice that it plans to idle its Bar and Rolling Mills facility in Lorain, Ohio starting in March. Another 200 employees at the facility are expected to lose their jobs as a result, just the latest round of jobs eliminated at the facility.
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-9) issued the following statement upon learning that Republic Steel in Lorain, OH might idle an additional 200 employees.
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-9) offered her warm congratulations to the students she has nominated or offered as alternates from Ohio’s 9th Congressional District for U.S. service academies for the coming school year.
Washington, D.C.— Following weeks of anti-Muslim bigotry and acts of hatred, Reps. Don Beyer (D-VA), Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Eleanor Holmes-Norton (D-DC), Joe Crowley (D-NY), Betty McCollum (D-MN), Mike Honda (D-CA), Keith Ellison (D-MN), and Andre Carson (D-IN), along with 63 original cosponsors, introduced legislation condemning violence, bigotry, and hateful rhetoric towards Muslim-Americans.
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-9) has championed the push to modernize Toledo’s Ashley Federal Courthouse for more than a decade. Now, with funding for facility modernization and the addition of an attached annex included in the bipartisan budget agreement currently under review by Congress, her efforts appear ready to pay off for Toledo and the surrounding community.
NASA Glenn, Toledo Courthouse, Prescription Drug Pricing, Renewable Energy & Weatherization, Perkins Student Loans, Asian Carp & Open Lake Dumping Measures Headline Critical Funding Efforts
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-9) issued a scathing rebuke of U.S. trade policy today following news that 177 workers laid off at a Kyklos Bearing International (KBI) auto part manufacturing facility in Sandusky have been deemed eligible for Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA). TAA eligibility is granted only in cases where workers were laid off through no fault of their own as a direct result of global trade.
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-9), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, issued this statement following news that negotiators in Paris had reached an historic climate accord.
“The global awakening that the Paris Climate Change Agreement represents is truly historic. For so many of the nations of the world to agree to address a common challenge, a step necessary for our mutual survival, indicates a new normal of common purpose for our fragile earth.
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-9) expressed her warm enthusiasm after meeting White House Executive Pastry Chef Susan E. Morrison of Bay Village, Ohio at the annual White House Congressional Ball.