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May 28, 2025
Toledo, OH – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development and Senior Member on the Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration announced the award of $2,619,292 from United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development (RD) through the Rural Energy For America Program (Reap) Renewable And Energy Efficiency Program for projects in Defiance, Erie, Fulton, Sandusky, and Williams Counties.
"Today's announcement of

May 23, 2025

Toledo, Ohio – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), a senior member of House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, and Congressman Don Bacon (NE-02), Chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Cyber, Information Technologies, and Innovation introduced the bipartisan Gold Star Spouse Healthcare Enhancement Act. Currently, surviving spouses retain healthcare coverage through TRICARE in the “active-duty family member” category for just three years after their servicemember passes away.

Issues: Health Care

May 21, 2025

Full Hearing Recording Available Here

Washington, DC — Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Ranking Member of the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the subcommittee’s fiscal year 2026 budget hearing for the Army Corps of Engineers (Civil Works) and the Bureau of Reclamation:


May 20, 2025
Washington, DC — Representatives Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Ro Khanna (CA-17), Anna Paulina Luna (FL-13), and Andy Biggs (AZ-05) introduced the bipartisan Global Fairness in Drug Pricing Act to codify the core provisions of President Trump’s Executive Order into law — ensuring lasting, enforceable reform that permanently delivers lower prices to Americans. 

Americans pay the highest prescription drug prices in the world — in some cases,

Issues: Trade Health Care

In the News

September 2, 2016

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A Cleveland-based nonprofit social service group has been awarded $2.2 million from the Department of Veterans Affairs to help homeless veterans find permanent housing, U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur announced Thursday.

The money went to FrontLine Service, which manages a variety of programs including Operation Cleveland Home Front, a transitional housing program for Cuyahoga County's homeless veterans and their families.


September 2, 2016

Ohio will receive nearly $2 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under new programs created to face down the epidemic of opioid misuse and overdoses, U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D., Toledo) said Wednesday.

And U.S. Sen. Rob Portman (R., Ohio) joined with Walgreens representatives in Toledo on Wednesday to unveil new medication disposal stations. Mr. Portman said the steel deposit boxes were permitted under the newly passed anti-addiction legislation he co-authored in the Senate.


September 1, 2016

Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-9) today announced that Ohio will receive nearly $2 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under three health-related programs to address the statewide epidemic of opioid misuse and overdoses.


September 1, 2016

Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-9) today (Aug. 31, 2016) announced that Ohio will receive nearly $2 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under three health-related programs to address the statewide epidemic of opioid misuse and overdoses.


September 1, 2016

$53M allocated in U.S. as overdoses hit record high in state

by Tom Troy -- Blade Staff Writer

Ohio will receive nearly $2 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under new programs created to face down the epidemic of opioid misuse and overdoses, U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D., Toledo) said Wednesday.