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May 7, 2025

Washington, DC — Representatives Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Wesley Bell (MO-01), Mike Quigley (IL-05), and Hank Johnson (GA-04), led a letter to President Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi raising serious concerns over the potential nomination of Ed Martin to serve as US Attorney for the District of Columbia. Congresswoman Kaptur is the Co-Founder and Co-Chair and Congressman Quigley serves as Democratic Co-Chair of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus, and Congressman Bell is a new member of the Caucus. Additionally, Congressman Johnson is a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Congressman Bell previously served as St.


May 2, 2025

Toledo, Ohio — This week, on Wednesday April 30, 2025, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) and Congressman Bob Latta (OH-05), introduced a bipartisan resolution proclaiming May 9 through May 18, 2025, as “National American Birding Week.” Birding is a pastime that generates billions in economic benefits annually, but migratory bird populations face many threats to their survival.


April 24, 2025

Toledo, OH – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) announced that the University of Toledo has been awarded a $473,632 federal research award from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research to explore how the body’s immune system — specifically the IL-17 receptor signaling in megakaryocytes — responds to the condition known as oral thrush.

Issues: Health Care

April 23, 2025
Toledo, Ohio —  Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus released the following statement in response to public statements by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance that the United States of America should abandon being part of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine unless Ukraine agrees to surrender portions of its sovereign territory which were illegally annexed by Russia.

"Please let me remind the US Vice President and Secretary of State — Freedom means never Surrender, and Liberty must never capitulate to Dictatorship.  America does not live alone on this Earth.


In the News

July 12, 2016
By: Suzanne Stratford, Fox 8
July 12, 2016
LORAIN, Ohio - More 75 firefighters and citizens supporting the Lorain Fire Department gathered at Veterans Park in downtown Lorain Tuesday and then marched over to city hall, upset over layoffs that they say are putting both the community and firefighters at risk.
All but one fire station was closed and 22 firefighters were laid off July 1st to help the city manage a more than a three-million-dollar budget deficit.

July 11, 2016
By: Tim Casey, Cardiovascular Business
July 11, 2016
Senator Bernie Sanders and seven Democrats from the House of Representatives sent a letter on July 7 to FDA commissioner Robert M. Califf, MD, asking the agency to approve all generic versions of rosuvastatin calcium (Crestor).
AstraZeneca, which markets rosuvastatin calcium, is expected to lose patent protection on the blockbuster cholesterol lowering medication this month.

July 9, 2016
By: 13ABC
July 9, 2016
"...it will go directly towards research on the disease and studying it's cause. the funding is scheduled for five years at just under 400 thousand dollars per year. Kaptur said lyme disease affects 300 thousand americans each year..."

July 8, 2016
By: Tom Henry, Toledo Blade
July 8, 2016
GIBRALTAR ISLAND, Ohio — Although near-drought conditions since May 1 will likely suppress western Lake Erie algae this summer, scientists said the probable one-year reprieve simply underscores how strongly the region’s chronic algae problem is associated with agricultural runoff.
They said it reinforces why the government and the agricultural industry must continue to move forward with programs aimed at reducing runoff from the western Lake Eri

July 8, 2016
By: Bill McAllister, Linns.com
July 8, 2016
Slower mail has survived a challenge from members of the House Appropriations Committee.
Thanks to a maneuver by Rep.