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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Co-Chairs of the House Great Lakes Task Force Representatives Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) and David Joyce (R-OH), alongside Senate Great Lakes Task Force Co-Chairs U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Rob Portman (R-OH), and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), introduced bipartisan legislation to reauthorize and expand funding for the Great Lakes.

Washington, D.C. — Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) voted to pass the Rehabilitation for Multiemployer Pensions Act, more commonly called the Butch Lewis Act, a landmark piece of legislation to address the nation's worsening multiemployer pension crisis. Kaptur is an original cosponsor of the legislation.

WASHINGTON — Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced its proposed rule to dismantle state flexibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), a decision that would deny food assistance for up to 3.1 million people across the U.S., including 64,752 households in Ohio's Ninth Congressional District, and eliminate access to free school meals for low-income students:

Washington, D.C. — Today, the Congressional Ukraine Caucus Chairs, Representatives Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Andy Harris (R-MD), Mike Quigley (D-IL), and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), released the following statement after introducing the SAILORS Act, or the "Stopping Aggressive Incursions on Liberty by Ordering Russian Sanctions Act," legislation that would apply sanctions to 24 Senior Members of the Russian Security Service and their close associates until Russia releases 24 Ukrainian Sailors and 3 vessels the country illegally captured near the Kerch Strait in the Sea of Azov: