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February 7, 2025

WASHINGTON, DC – This week, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Congressman Dave Joyce (OH-14), Congresswoman Emilia Sykes (OH-13), and Congressman Michael Rulli (OH-06) introduced the East Palestine Health Impact Monitoring Act of 2025 to authorize funding to conduct a study of the long-term health impacts caused by the 2023 East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment.

Issues: Health Care

February 6, 2025

Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) and Congressman Dave Joyce (OH-14) have introduced the Great Lakes Gateways Network Act of 2025, a bipartisan effort to promote conservation, education, and public access to the Great Lakes and their surrounding watershed. The bill seeks to enhance historical, cultural, and recreational sites throughout the Great Lakes region by authorizing federal grants to support state, local, and private investments in conservation and community development.


January 31, 2025

Toledo, OH – Tonight, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-09) released the following statement, following news reports that Elon Musk has pressured the top US Treasury official in charge of payments to resign, and gained access and taken control of the US Treasury payment system:


January 31, 2025
Washington, DC — Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chair and Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development Ranking Member wrote a

January 31, 2025

Washington, DC – Today, Co-Chair and Co-Founder of the Congressional Poland Caucus Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-09), and Co-Chairs Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ-04), Congressman Bill Keating (D-MA-09), and Congressman Mike Turner (R-OH-10) announced that they will reestablish the bipartisan Congressional Poland Caucus for the 119th Congress.


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.