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Washington DC – Today, Representatives Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Dave Joyce (OH-14), Debbie Dingell (MI-06), Bill Huizenga (MI-04), Frank Mrvan (IN-01), Tim Kennedy (NY-26), Randy Weber (TX-14), Claudia Tenney (NY-24), Erin Houchin (IN-09), and Robin Kelly (IL-02) led the bipartisan introduction of the Securing Smart Investments in our Ports Act. This legislation strengthens the Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP) by ensuring federal investments are distributed more evenly across regional port systems nationwide.
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) and Congresswoman Shontel M.
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.
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.
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Inventor’s likeness is unveiled
By TRACIE MAURIELLO | BLOCK NEWS ALLIANCE
WASHINGTON — He’s Ohio’s homegrown son, but other states have claims to Thomas Edison as well.
New Jersey claims Mr. Edison as its Wizard of Menlo Park, Kentucky offers tours of the Louisville home he briefly lived in while he worked as a telegrapher, and Michigan brags that he peddled newspapers in Port Huron.
Now Washington can claim the legendary inventor too.
By Sabrina Eaton -- Plain Dealer
WASHINGTON - A service dog named Liberty has liberated retired Marine Corps Sgt. Michael Garvey of Maryland from some of the post traumatic stress disorder symptoms he experienced upon returning home from Afghanistan.
"He is my grounding rod, he calms me down so quickly," said Garvey. "If I ever get disoriented, he is like my little rock."
By Jessica Wehrman & Jana Heigl -- The Columbus Dispatch
WASHINGTON — During Thomas Alva Edison’s youth in northern Ohio's Milan, he was known as a restless and imaginative boy whose teacher nevertheless reported to his mother that he was “addled” and “too stupid to learn.”
That curious boy grew up to invent the light bulb, the phonograph, the telegraph, cement and an electronic vote recorder that he unsuccessfully tried to sell to Congress when he was 22. (They eventually embraced the idea, 104 years later.)
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Everyone wanted a piece of Thomas Alva Edison on Wednesday afternoon.
Speaking at a U.S. Capitol dedication ceremony for a statue of the prolific inventor from tiny Milan, Ohio, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell recalled Edison's time working in a Kentucky telegraph office.
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi likened Edison's laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey, to Menlo Park, California: ground zero for Silicon Valley's innovation.
Sheet covering new Edison statue falls off just before the dedication ceremony -
Guests at the dedication of the Thomas Edison statue in the Capitol on Wednesday got a sneak peak — by mistake.
Five minutes before the start of the Statuary Hall ceremony, the fabric covering the statue accidentally dropped.
Members of the Capitol Police Honor Guard then took a few minutes to try and get it back on.
While the crowd laughed as the guards struggled to refit the sheet, a guard lifted his hand, jokingly implying that people shouldn’t look.