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October 24, 2024

Toledo, Ohio – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) announced a total of $18.57 Million in awards from the Federal Rail Administration secured alongside the Ohio Rail Development Commission (ORDC) for Northern Ohio & Western Railway and Napoleon, Defiance & Western Railway.


October 21, 2024

Toledo, OH – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, announced that five additional Ohio counties have been designated as primary natural disaster areas by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) due to ongoing drought conditions.


October 11, 2024

Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), a senior member of House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee and Congressman Don Bacon (NE-02) Chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Cyber, Information Technologies, and Innovation introduced the bipartisan Gold Star Spouse Healthcare Enhancement Act. Currently, surviving spouses retain healthcare coverage through TRICARE in the “active-duty family member” category for just three years after their servicemember passes away.

Issues: Health Care

October 9, 2024

Toledo, Ohio — Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), led 63 of her colleagues in a letter alongside Congresswoman Kathy Manning (NC-06), Congressman Jared Moskowitz (FL-23), Congresswoman Dina Titus (NV-01), and Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury (NM-01), urging House Speaker Mike Johnson (LA-04) to bring the US House of Representatives back into session to approve necessary funding for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Small Business Administration (SBA) to fulfill their Hurricane Helene and Milton relief missions.


October 9, 2024

Toledo, Ohio – Today, during National Fire Prevention Week, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), a senior Member of the House Appropriations Committee and of the House Fire Caucus announced $3,052,523 in critical federal funding she helped to secure.


In the News

June 22, 2016

By: Tom Troy, Toledo Blade
June 22, 2016

U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D., Toledo) proposed an amendment to a House bill today that would prohibit a person on the "no-fly list" of the Terrorism Watch List from being able to buy a gun. It was voted down.

The exchange occurred during debate on appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security.

To put someone's name on the terrorism watch list a law enforcement agency must have "reasonable suspicion" that an individual is involved somehow in terrorism.


June 21, 2016

By: Stephen Koff, The Plain Dealer
June 21, 2016


June 21, 2016

By: Hazel Bradford, Pensions & Investments
June 21, 2016


June 21, 2016

By: Tom Jackson, Sandusky Register
June 21, 2016

Teamsters in northern Ohio and other areas of the Midwest.

Only a full-fledged investigation can uncover why the fund is in such bad shape, Kaptur said.


June 20, 2016

By David B. Brandolph, Bloomberg BNA
June 20, 2016

Fifty-one Democratic lawmakers have asked the GAO to investigate the financially troubled Central States pension fund's investment decisions.

Ten Democrats in the Senate and 41 in the House requested on June 20 that the Government Accountability Office review the Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund's investment decisions going back to 1982, when the fund came under the supervision of a court-ordered consent decree.