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May 20, 2021

Washington, D.C. — Today, the Congressional Ukraine Caucus Co-Chairs Representatives Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Andy Harris (R-MD), Mike Quigley (D-IL), and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), released the following statement in response to President Biden's decision to waive sanctions on Nord Stream 2 AG and its CEO, Putin crony Matthias Warnig.


May 19, 2021

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), released the following statement after they re-introduced the bipartisan Transatlantic Telecommunications Security Act, legislation to authorize the U.S. Development Finance Corporation to provide financing for 5G telecommunications infrastructure development to our European allies and partners.


May 19, 2021

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) released the following statement announcing that the Ohio Veterans Home in Sandusky, Ohio has been awarded $5,304,687 through the American Rescue Plan to assist in operational needs and to address inflated costs of operations during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Issues: Health Care

May 13, 2021

Washington, D.C. — Today, the Congressional Ukraine Caucus Co-Chairs Representatives Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Andy Harris (R-MD), Mike Quigley (D-IL), and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), sent the following letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressing deep concern with the state of energy security in Ukraine and Central and Eastern Europe.


April 30, 2021

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), released the following statement on President Joe Biden's Address to a Joint Session of Congress. Rep. Kaptur attended the speech in person.


April 30, 2021

Washington, D.C. – Today, Representatives Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), today led 33 House members seeking an expansion of postal banking pilot programs to extend banking services to millions of underbanked Americans and revitalize the Postal Service.


April 26, 2021

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Dean of Ohio's Congressional delegation and the longest serving woman in the history of the U.S. House of Representatives, released the following statement after the U.S. Census Bureau reported the first 2020 Census results, which included the number of seats each state will have in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Census Bureau found that Ohio will lose one seat, dropping from 16 Members of Congress to 15.


April 23, 2021

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), alongside U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and U.S. Representatives Joyce Beatty (OH-3) and Tim Ryan (OH-13) today penned a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) to immediately reopen its civil rights investigation into Tamir Rice's death.


April 21, 2021

Washington, D.C. – Today, Representatives Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) introduced a bipartisan resolution condemning the Government of Russia for the attempted assassination, wrongful imprisonment and brutal treatment of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny as well as the Putin regime's criminal acts to intimidate and silence those in Russa bravely fighting for human rights, democracy and the end of official corruption.


April 20, 2021

Washington, D.C. — Today, the bipartisan House Great Lakes Task Force Co-Chairs Representatives Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Debbie Dingell (D-MI), David Joyce (R-OH), and Bill Huizenga (R-MI), along with Bill Foster (D-IL) and Jack Bergman (R-MI), led a group of 32 Members of Congress in sending a bipartisan letter to Office of Budget and Management (OMB) Acting Director Shalanda Young and Acting Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works Jaime A. Pinkham outlining the Task Force's budget priorities for the Great Lakes region in FY2022.