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Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Dean of the Ohio Delegation, issued the following statement after news that President Trump would cut funding of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) by 95%. The ONDCP not only provides the annual strategy to reducing illicit drug use, drug trafficking and crime, and related health consequences, it also administers funding programs that are vital to achieving those objectives.

Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) and Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-MI) issued the following statement after news that U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn its approval of Ohio EPA's assessment of the state's list of impaired waterways. That assessment failed to address the open waters of Lake Erie. U.S. EPA had previously accepted both Ohio's and Michigan's assessments even though Michigan had designated the open waters of Lake Erie as impaired, while Ohio had refused to do so. U.S.

Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), today issued the following statement regarding the section 232 steel report sent by the U.S. Department of Commerce to President Trump.

Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Dean of the Ohio Delegation, spoke at a press conference at the U.S. Supreme Court to defend the constitutional rights of Ohioans who have been purged from voter rolls and to condemn the clear voter suppression implicit in denying eligible citizens access to the ballot box. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute.

Washington, D.C. — As one of her first actions in 2018, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), the longest-serving woman in Congress and Dean of the Ohio Delegation, took to the House floor to urge Congress and President Donald Trump to act and provide pension relief to thousands of retirees and workers through the bipartisan Butch Lewis Act of 2017.