Skip to main content

Newsroom

Latest News

December 12, 2025

Toledo, OH — Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) denounced the Trump Administration Commerce Department’s abrupt decision to freeze all federal support and funding, effective immediately for Ohio’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) program — a bipartisan, Congressionally-appropriated initiative that has served thousands of Ohio manufacturers for decades. 


December 1, 2025

Toledo, OH – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) received confirmation from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that funding for Toledo Public Schools Head Start Program has been certified and will resume immediately. Congresswoman Kaptur, Senator Husted, and Senator Moreno made multiple daily inquires to HHS to ensure funding would meet the December 1st deadline. Toledo Public Schools receives $10 Million every six months for this critical early education program.


December 1, 2025
Toledo, OH – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) released the following statement after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) failed to provide funding for Toledo Public Schools Head Start Program, causing the closure of the program effective immediately, today December 1st.

November 26, 2025
Toledo, OH — Today, on the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) and the Area Office on Aging (AOoA) are reminding older adults 60+ across Northwest Ohio about the importance of using their Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP) benefits before they expire at the end of November.

November 25, 2025

Washington, DC –  Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus; Congressman Adam Smith (WA-09), Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee; Congressman Gregory W.


In the News

October 18, 2018

MCCOMB - While agriculture accounts for more than two-thirds of the phosphorus pollution in Lake Erie, many farmers are working hard to find and share conservation practices that will best address that problem. One of the most prominent examples in the western Lake Erie basin is the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service's Blanchard River Demonstration Farms Network. On Wednesday, U.S. Rep.


July 25, 2018

The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday adopted a measure by Toledo Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur that encourages medical students to obtain their needed clinical observation hours at Veterans Administration hospitals.


July 12, 2018

When most think of summertime in Port Clinton, they think beaches, boating and, in general, having an unlimited amount of fun in the water and on the shore. For others, summer in Port Clinton still means fun on the shoreline, but fun gearing up for the incomparable World Series of Shooting Sports at Camp Perry.


June 19, 2018

U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur visited a Michigan detention center Monday morning to meet with migrant workers detained in the recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement illegal immigration sting in Sandusky and Castalia, Ohio.


June 17, 2018

The Lorain County Sheriff's Office recently hosted a special roundtable discussion with U.S. Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur, according to a news release. At the request of the Sheriff's Office, Kaptur visited and discussed important issues impacting law enforcement, corrections and the Drug Task Force.