Press Releases
TOLEDO (Oct. 20, 2014) – Congresswoman Kaptur joined workers at packed UAW Local 12 hall today to rally for keeping Jeep Wrangler production in Toledo.
“It’s a part of our life. It’s our substance,” Kaptur said of the iconic Jeep brand.
“Our vehicles have gone to war. We’re part of the core. We hold it together. We make things. And we invent, too. I hope that we can invent the future of the auto industry here.”
Kaptur was joined by UAW Region 2 Director Ken Lortz and Local 12 President Bruce Baumhower, along with U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown and a bevy of local officials.
OREGON, Ohio (Oct. 20, 2014 – Welcoming the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regional administrator to Toledo, Congresswoman Kaptur invited the agency to join a partnership to design a comprehensive attack on harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie.
Administrator Susan Hedman announced $12 million in new federal funding for a variety of initiatives aimed at helping restore the lake to health. Most of the funding is to agricultural producers for such activities as soil testing and analysis for fertilizer recommendations, conservation practices such as cover cropping and controlled drainage structures and construction of manure storage and roofed feedlots.
TOLEDO (October 3, 2014) -- Congresswoman Kaptur said today she is confident that Fiat Chrysler will keep vehicle production in Toledo and pledged her full commitment to efforts aimed at retaining the iconic Jeep brand.
“We have the finest workers in the world at our Jeep plant,” Kaptur said. “They’ve done everything that has been asked of them—and then some. The Jeep workforce in Toledo has put real meaning to the term ‘world-class manufacturing.’ "
HURON, Ohio (September 30, 2014) – Congresswoman Kaptur joined Bowling Green State University President Mary Ellen Mazey in breaking ground for the $15.75 million Allied Health and Sciences Project at the Firelands branch campus here.
“The Firelands campus has reached another important milestone in providing quality educational opportunities to the community,” said Congresswoman Kaptur.
“The Allied Health and Sciences Project aligns the Firelands campus with the demand for highly-trained workers in the health sector.”
President Mazey said the project will fulfill immediate campus and student needs while also accommodating the near-term growth of the school.
LORAIN (September 29, 2014) – Congresswoman Kaptur congratulated Lorain County Community College today on receiving a major federal award for expanded job training in advanced manufacturing technologies.
LCCC received a $5.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor to act as the lead college in a consortium of 11 Ohio schools that will offer enhanced work-based training opportunities in the growing field of advanced manufacturing.
“Lorain County Community College stands above the crowd once again,” said Congresswoman Kaptur. “The Department of Labor clearly recognizes the LCCC’s Center for Manufacturing Excellence as a model for job growth and economic development,” she said.
Kaptur yesterday voted in favor of arming Syrian rebels against the ISIL radical movement that has captured territory both in Iraq and Syria.
Kaptur, ranking member of the Energy and Water Subcommittee, said the House of Representatives is hurting job growth and the economic recovery with its indecisiveness.
"Once again this house is scrambling to pass another continuing resolution," Kaptur said. "This is a classic definition of dysfunction, kicking the can down the road, shirking our responsibility to address the priorities of our nation through clear 2015 departmental funding levels and decisiveness."
Kaptur, co-chair of the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus, co-sponsored the bipartisan resolution that was offered by Rep. Jim Gerlach (R-Pennsylvania).
Here is Congresswoman Kaptur's statement on the House floor in support of the resolution:
Senators Portman, Brown Offer Companion LegislationWASHINGTON, D.C. – Working together with Ohio's two senators, U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (Ohio-9) today introduced legislation directing the federal EPA to publish a health advisory on microcystin and to submit reports on what constitutes a safe level of the toxin in drinking water.
Because there is no U.S. national drinking water safety standard for mycrosystis in drinking water, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency defaulted to the World Health Organization standard of 1 part per billion in carrying out tests of Toledo's water quality during the emergency last month.
USEPA Administrator Gina McCarthy made the announcement this afternoon at a Great Lakes conference in Washington, D.C.
The $12 million will be used to expand monitoring and forecasting, increase incentives for farmers to reduce phosphorus runoff, and improve measurement of phosphorus in the tributaries of Lake Erie.