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FRIDAY MORNING 10am: AVON LAKE POWER PLANT
Rep. Kaptur, Mayor Zilka, NRG Exec
To Discuss Avon Lake Power Plant
Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur will join Avon Lake Mayor Greg Zilka and NRG Energy regional president Lee Davis at the Avon Lake power plant, where NRG plans to add gas-firing capability.
Congresswoman Kaptur announced a $1.1 million federal award to Berea-based OhioGuidestone for workforce and community development programs for young people in Cuyahoga County.
Congress enacted the Glass-Steagall Small Banking Act in 1933. It’s time to bring it back.
“Glass-Steagall was serving our country and our banking system well when Congress repealed it in 1999,” said Congresswoman Kaptur, who has sponsored legislation to reinstate the landmark legislation. "Just look what happened several years later--a meltdown of the financial system."
Congresswoman Kaptur welcomed the latest delegation from Honor Flight Cleveland to the World War II Memorial. The group included 25 World War II veterans and also their "guardians."
Congresswoman Kaptur shepherded the legislation for the World War II memorial through Congress after getting the idea from a constituent who had fought in the Battle of the Bulge.
TOLEDO – Congresswoman Kaptur welcomed the federal Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative here for its Midwest regional summit meeting by urging a recommitment to the goal of energy independence as a way to create jobs and keep America strong.
Facilities Sustained Damage During Hurricane Sandy
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 14, 2013
CONTACT: Nathan Facey (202) 225-4146 or Steve Katich (419) 259-7500
Congresswoman Kaptur said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded Toledo $200,000 to help develop an area-wide strategy to develop the Overland Industrial Park in conjunction with the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Toledo is one of 10 communities that will be added to a major federal initiative aimed at revitalizing urban waterways, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur announced today.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator Bob Persiacepe will make the official announcement tomorrow afternoon at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Dr. Hong, a business professor at the University of Toledo, was born in Korea. He was Congresswoman Kaptur's special guest to the House chamber to hear President Park address the U.S. House and Senate on May 9.
President Park, the first woman president in Korean history, earlier conducted a summit meeting with President Obama.