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November 21, 2024

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) announced a $1,000,000 award for Erie County, Ohio, from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) through the Quality Improvement Fund — Justice Involved program. This discretionary funding will advance health services and programs that provide critical support to justice-involved individuals, ensuring equitable access to healthcare resources and opportunities for recovery and reintegration.

Issues: Health Care

November 21, 2024
Washington, DC – Today, Members of the Ohio Congressional delegation led by Congresswoman Joyce Beatty (OH-03), and Dean of the Ohio Delegation Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) released the following statement condemning Neo-Nazi’s who marched in Columbus, Ohio this past weekend. This follows a similar incident of antisemitism carried out by a Neo-Nazi group in Sylvania and Toledo in July of 2023.

November 14, 2024

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee applauded the bipartisan passage of the Social Security Fairness Act of 2023 in the House of Representatives by an overwhelming vote of 327 to 75 on Tuesday, November 12. This legislation eliminates the harmful Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP), and the Government Pensions Offset (GPO), which reduces or eliminates earned Social Security benefits for public servants, including police officers, firefighters, educators and others.


November 14, 2024

Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, announced the award of $10,371,073 from the US Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration (MARAD) to the Put-in-Bay Township Port Authority.


November 13, 2024

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, announced that the City of Sandusky has been awarded $600,000 from the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) initiative. This award will advance Sandusky’s efforts to create safer, more navigable streets through a comprehensive approach.


In the News

June 28, 2016
By: Josh Marks, In Habitat
June 28, 2016
Could the Rust Belt turn into the Wind Belt? The Great Lakes represent 20 percent of the United States’ total offshore wind energy capacity, but not a single wind turbine has yet to be seen. That could start to change soon thanks to a $40 million grant from the Department of Energy for North America’s first offshore freshwater wind farm, located on Lake Erie about eight to 10 miles northwest of downtown Cleveland, Ohio.

June 27, 2016
By: John Benson, The Plain Dealer
June 27, 2016
Roughly half a dozen times a day Rocky River residents living near the Norfolk & Southern Railroad line have to deal with loud horns.
The biggest problem continues to be early morning trains blaring horns near railroad crossings (Elmwood Road, Wagar Road, Morewood Parkway and Linda Street) and underpasses (Smith Court and Blount Street).
"Last August, I convened a meeting with the two congressional offices of J

June 26, 2016
By: Olivera Perkins, The Plain Dealer
June 26,2016
A national coalition pushing for post offices to also provide banking services, as a way of keeping the U. S. Postal Service afloat, will hold a public meeting Tuesday in Cleveland.
A Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service, a coalition of more than 130 civil rights, environmental, faith-based and labor organizations, will hold a "field hearing" 6 p.m. Tuesday at East Mt.

June 24, 2016
By: Jessica Wehrman and Lilly Maier, The Dispatch
June 24, 2016
While House Democrats ended their sit-in aimed at forcing votes on gun control issues Thursday afternoon, they vow that they will continue pressing the issue after they return.
Meanwhile, the Senate still faces pressure on the gun issue — particularly after a last-minute “test” vote Thursday on a measure that would ban those on the no-fly list from buying guns.
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