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Republicans Vote Down Initiative to Create Jobs for Returning Veterans
Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur offered an amendment today in the House Budget Committee's mark up of the Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Resolution.
Kaptur's amendment would establish a Veterans Job Corps that would employ at least 20,000 veterans over 5 years in projects to preserve and restore America's national parks, state parks, and other public lands.
While the Veterans Job Corps amendment drew unanimous support from House Democrats, it was voted down 17-20 in the Republican controlled House Budget Committee this afternoon.
Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur welcomed the release today by the Obama Administration of the 2012 Asian Carp Control Strategy Framework. The report outlines specific plans to protect the Great Lakes from invasive Asian carp, including new technologies to improve Asian carp capture rates, prioritizing eDNA sampling for Asian carp, and improving and replacing barriers in the Chicago Area Waterway System.
"I am glad President Obama has made a priority of protecting our Great Lakes from an Asian carp invasion, which would devastate our $7 billion fishing industry," said Kaptur, a cosponsor of the Stop Asian Carp Act.
Today Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur urged President Barack Obama to conduct negotiations with the new Libyan government and the Israeli government to provide compensation to the victims of the Munich massacre at the Olympic Games in 1972.
Ohioan David Berger was one of the 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team that were killed by the terrorist group, the Black September Organization. The National Park Service's David Berger National Memorial is located in Beachwood, Ohio, and honors David Berger and all of the victims of the tragedy in Munich.
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"The restoration of eligibility for this critical federal funding is great news for the City of Cleveland and, more important, for the safety and well being of Cleveland area families," Congresswoman Kaptur said.
Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur met with senior leadership of the Ohio National Guard and members of the Ohio Congressional Delegation at a briefing on Ohio's response to a possible Base Closure and Realignment Commission (BRAC).
Kaptur discussed ways in which the National Guard and the Ohio Delegation and can work together to protect jobs and military instillations in the region.
"The world-class installations in Northern Ohio are some of the first to respond to threats against our nation," said Kaptur. "We must be vigilant and proactive in confronting this challenge."
Kaptur and Eugenia Tymoshenko spoke at length about the former prime minister's detention, appeal, and concerns over her health and safety. In response to the former prime minister's imprisonment, Kaptur introduced a resolution in October 2011, H.Res. 435, condemning Yulia Tymoshenko's politically charged prosecution by the new Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych's government.
"Catholic schools are a significant part of our community and our educational system. As an alumna of St. Ursula Academy, Toledo's oldest all-girls Catholic school, I received an exemplary education that instilled in me the values of service and community. It is important to recognize the role these schools play in educating our nation," said Kaptur.
"As the longest-serving woman in the U.S. House of Representatives, I voted for this bill that was signed into law three years ago because it reaffirmed a core American principle: you should get equal pay for equal work.