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“I’m very impressed by the hiring fair,” Kaptur said. “We owe it to our veterans from Northern Ohio to learn about job opportunities in both the public and private sector and also about services such as health care.”
Thousands of veterans poured into Cobo Center in downtown Detroit for three-day event organized by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
The award, she said, will fund the hiring of as many as 15 officers to increase community policing and prevent crime.
The award to Toledo is one of only 12 in Ohio and part of $111 million nationally to create or preserve local law enforcement jobs.
The city of Toledo will receive a $200,000 award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) to train and hire workers to address environmental challenges in the community, Congresswoman Kaptur said.
“Toledo is one of only 15 grantees in the country to receive an award,” said Congresswoman Kaptur. “It will put people to work and at the same time meet local environmental challenges.”
Approximately 220,000 Catholic sisters have served in the United States since the country was founded.
Congresswoman Kaptur welcomed the announcement by Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki that his department would add approximately 1,600 mental health clinicians to meet the increased demand for services.
“The announcement comes at a most opportune time,” said Congresswoman Kaptur, noting that a new VA clinic is scheduled to open this fall on campus of the University of Toledo Medical Center.
At the new clinic, she said, the VA will provide psychological examinations for compensation and pension as well as intensive case management.
At a meeting facilitated by Congresswoman Kaptur, officials at Ohio's seven medical schools discussed biomedical research on Wednesday, June 6 with Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Leaders at the University of Toledo's College of Medicine and Life Sciences organized the Capitol Hill session.
June 7, 2012
Mr. Speaker:
Yesterday, our nation remembered and commemorated the 68th anniversary of D-Day, the World World Two Allied invasion of Normandy France and the beginning of the liberation of Europe from the forces of tyranny.
Seventy years ago today, I want to commemorate another historic World War II battle—the Battle of Midway, when the United States Navy struck back at Imperial Japan, turning the tide in the Pacific and paving the way to a great American victory at sea.
Congresswoman Kaptur today offered an amendment that would restore $10 million in funding for alternative energy programs in the Energy and Water appropriations measure.
"Our future security depends on diversified energy research and development," Congresswoman Kaptur said during debate on the House floor.
"American security and competitiveness hinge on affordable energy for our businesses and families."
U.S. Representative Marcy Kaptur (OH-9) voiced strong disagreement as the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) takes effect today.
“The implementation of the free trade agreement with Colombia is further proof that the promised labor right protections in NAFTA style deals are meaningless,” Rep. Kaptur stated. “For decades, we have been told that these types of deals improve working conditions in partner countries. This simply is not true.”