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October 24, 2025

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-09), Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC-02), Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN-09), and Congressman Tom Kean (R-NJ-07) introduced the bipartisan REPO Implementation Act of 2025. This new legislation builds off the REPO for Ukrainians Act, which was signed into law by President Joe Biden as part of the Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 and allowed for the repurposing of a sizeable subset of frozen Russian sovereign assets for Ukraine.


October 24, 2025
Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) and Congressman Thomas Massie (KY-04) reintroduced the Balancing Incentives Act of 2025, bipartisan legislation designed to level the playing field for America’s independent inventors and small businesses by strengthening protections for patent owners.
The Balancing Incentives Act amends US patent law to require a patent owner's consent before anyone can file a petition to challenge the patent through inter partes review or post-grant review at the Patent Tria

October 24, 2025
Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), a senior member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, joined Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture, Congresswoman Jahana Hayes (CT-05), and House Committee on Agriculture Ranking Member Angie Craig (MN-02), and 211 House Democrats in sending a letter to US Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, to urge the agency to use contingency reserve dollars to fund

October 20, 2025

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


October 16, 2025

Washington, DC – Today, Congressional Caucus Co-Chairs Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01), Congressman Mike Quigley (IL-05), Congressman Joe Wilson (SC-02), Ukraine Caucus Member Congressman Tom Suozzi (NY-03), and former House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Congressman Michael McCaul (TX-10) led a letter to President Donald J. Trump ahead of his White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. 


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.