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April 13, 2026

Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) joined Congresswoman Susie Lee (NV-03) and 13 of their colleagues in a letter demanding Speaker Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries work in a bipartisan manner to direct the Ethics Committee to expedite their investigations into alleged misconduct by Members of Congress, with a call for prompt action.


April 10, 2026
Toledo, OH – Today, Co-Chair of the Bipartisan Congressional Hungarian Caucus Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) and member of the Congressional Hungarian Caucus Congressman Don Bacon (NE-02) introduced H.R. 8219 the bipartisan Barring Leverage and Obstruction that Contributes to Kremlin Profits Undermining Transatlantic Interests and NATO Act or the BLOCK PUTIN Act, which will hold senior Hungarian government officials accountable if they continue to block European assistance to Ukraine or continue to deepen Hungary’s dangerous reliance on Russian energy.

April 8, 2026

Oak Harbor, OH – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) visited the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant to announce a $19.2 Million federal funding investment from the Department of Energy (DOE) for the new Nuclear Reactor Safety Training and Workforce Development program to be administered at the University of Toledo.


April 7, 2026
Toledo, OH — Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) issued the following statement in response to President Donald Trump’s threat against Iran that “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.”
“President Trump launched his war against Iran promising to liberate its 93 million people from a tyrannical regime. Today, he threatened to annihilate them. The President is struggling after plunging the United States into a war without any strategy or clear objectives—and he is now recklessly threatening to commit atrocities and war crimes.

April 3, 2026

Washington, DC Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Bipartisan Congressional Ukraine Caucus, Congressman Steny Hoyer (MD-05), Former Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Congressman Bill Keating (MA-09), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee On Europe, and Congressman Jim Costa (CA-21), Ranking Member of the Transatlantic Legislators’ Dialogue released the following statement in response to President Donald Trump’s threat to withdraw the United States from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Alliance.


In the News

April 23, 2018

US Rep. Marcy Kaptur was honored at Cleveland City Council's meeting for being the longest serving woman in the House of Representatives.


April 18, 2018

Marcy Kaptur is planting Seeds of Hope this spring. The longest-serving woman in the U.S. House of Representatives, with 35 years in Congress, emerged from a March visit to the farm fields near Zhytomyr, a city of 266,000 people that is 140 kilometers southwest of Kyiv, with new zest over the potential of Ukraine's women and its agricultural sector.


March 28, 2018

Longtime Ohio lawmaker recently became the longest-serving woman in the House.


March 26, 2018

Ninth district congressional Representative Marcy Kaptur, who first took office in 1983, is now the longest serving woman in the history of the U.S. House. She broke that record this month, having served more than 12,850 days. And she shows no sign of slowing down.


March 26, 2018

An Ohio congresswoman is now longest-serving woman in the history of the U.S. House. Democrat Marcy Kaptur set the mark for the longest tenure by a woman last week. She's now been in Congress just over 35 years, surpassing Edith Nourse Rogers, a Massachusetts Republican who served from 1925 until her death in 1960.