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Kaptur Leads Colleagues In Urging President Trump to Address Escalating Cyber Threats Ahead of Meeting With Dictator Putin In Alaska
August 15, 2025
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Toledo, OH – Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus alongside Ukraine Caucus members Congressman Lloyd Doggett (TX-37), Congressman Dan Goldman (NY-10), and Congresswoman Julie Johnson (TX-32), sent a forceful letter to President Donald J.
Issues: Trade Jobs and the Economy Health Care Energy
Kaptur Statement On Negotiations In Russia's Illegal War In Ukraine
August 10, 2025
Press Release
Toledo, OH — Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus released the following statement regarding the state of Russia's illegal war in Ukraine, as negations continues to develop.
 
"Bravo to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He nailed it—no red carpet and no concessions to Russian tyrant Putin. Dictator Putin is the aggressor. His lust for what is not his has exacted a crushing decade of war inside Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of Russian and Ukrainian lives have been lost. Putin needs to attend to his own country, which is falling into ruins.
Issues: Trade Jobs and the Economy
Non-Partisan Watchdog: President Trump and Russ Vought Continue to Steal from America’s Students and Schools
July 31, 2025
Press Release

Toledo, OH — Today, the non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a decision finding that the Department of Energy violated the Impoundment Control Act. After investigating delayed awards for the Department of Energy’s Renew America’s Schools Program, GAO confirmed what we already knew: President Trump and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russ Vought’s theft of appropriated funds violates the Impoundment Control Act.

Issues: Trade Jobs and the Economy Health Care Energy
Kaptur, Quigley, Pingree Call for Trump Administration to Preserve Legal Status for Ukrainians
July 31, 2025
Press Release

Toledo, OH – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), and Congressman Mike QuigleyCo-Chairs of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus, together with Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (ME-01), led 33 members of Congress in calling on the Trump administration to rapidly address applications for legal status and work authorization by Ukrainians currently in the United States.

Issues: Jobs and the Economy
Kaptur, Keating, Wilson, Smith Introduce Legislation Formalizing US-Belarus Strategic Dialogue
July 30, 2025
Press Release

Toledo, OH — This week, the bipartisan Co-Chairs of the House Belarus Caucus, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Congressman Bill Keating (MA-09), Congressman Joe Wilson (SC-02), and Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-04) introduced legislation to formalize an annual US-Belarus Strategic Dialogue to continue US engagement with the Belarusian democratic opposition, strengthen Belarusian civil society, and ensure accountability for the regime of Alyaksandr Lukashenka.

In the News

Firefighters, Citizens March to Lorain City Council to Speak Out About Cuts
July 12, 2016
In The News
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.
Congress Urges FDA to Approve Generic Version of Crestor
July 11, 2016
In The News
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.
Congresswoman Kaptur Mention on Lyme Disease Study
July 9, 2016
In The News
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..."
Dry Weather Stifles Algae Bloom, But Scientists Say Runoff Still Threat
July 8, 2016
In The News
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
House Rejects Effort to Change USPS Mail Delivery Standards
July 8, 2016
In The News
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.