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December 22, 2015

Image removed.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.


December 17, 2015

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.


December 17, 2015

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.


December 16, 2015

NASA Glenn, Toledo Courthouse, Prescription Drug Pricing, Renewable Energy & Weatherization, Perkins Student Loans, Asian Carp & Open Lake Dumping Measures Headline Critical Funding Efforts


December 16, 2015

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.


December 14, 2015

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.


December 8, 2015

Image removed.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.


December 8, 2015

Workers and retirees currently facing cuts of 60% or more to earned benefits


December 7, 2015

Marketplace currently open, three Toledo events scheduled this week

WASHINGTON, D.C.— With an important health insurance enrollment deadline less than two weeks away, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-9), President and COO of Mercy St. Anne Hospital Brad Bertke, Toledo/Lucas County CareNet Assistant Director Julie Grasson and others held an event at Mercy St. Anne Hospital today to urge residents hoping to enroll or re-enroll to take action. December 15th is the sign-up deadline to qualify for coverage that starts January 1, 2016.


December 4, 2015

Local, Federal Officials Announce Ways to Get Covered in Lorain and Elyria