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September 16, 2024

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) delivered a heartfelt tribute on the floor of the US House of Representatives in recognition of Jim Leyland's recent induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Leyland, a native of Perrysburg, Ohio, joins the ranks of the greatest in Major League Baseball history with his enshrinement in Cooperstown, New York.


September 13, 2024

Fremont, Ohio – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) announced that Justice for Migrant Women, an organization based in Fremont, Ohio, has been awarded a $350,000 award from the US Department of Labor.


September 13, 2024

Toledo, Ohio — Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Democratic Co-Chair of the bipartisan Congressional House Automotive Caucus and Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-06) released the following statement applauding US Trade Representative Katherine Tai’s decision to implement a 100% tariff on imported Chinese electric vehicles. 


September 11, 2024

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, announced that the US Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has awarded over $7 Million in federal investments through its Airport Improvement Program (AIP) to support critical infrastructure upgrades and enhance safety at several regional airports in Northern Ohio.


September 10, 2024

Washington, DC – Today, the bipartisan Co-Chairs of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-09), Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA-01), Congressman Mike Quigley (D-IL-05), and Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC-02) were joined by Senate Ukraine Caucus Co-Chairs Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) in recognizing President Biden’s leadership on Ukraine’s defense and calling on him to lift Ukraine’s restrictions on using long-range weapons to strike legitimate military targets inside Russia


In the News

June 17, 2016

By: 13abc (and many other news outlets)
June 17, 2016

They’re something every family with children need but many are struggling to afford them.

“The average cost of diapers is about 1,000 dollars a year,” Ohio Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-9) said.


June 16, 2016
By: Sustainable Agriculture
June 16, 2016
Nestled against the George Washington National Forest, in the quiet town of Upper Tract West Virginia, contract poultry farmer Eric Hedrick struggles to keep his family, and his 315,000 birds, healthy and fed. The largest single-owner producer in West Virginia, Hedrick has been a “contract grower” for Pilgrim’s Pride (the second largest poultry producer in the country) for 10 years.

June 14, 2016

By: Nick Penniman, The Hill
June 14, 2016

This is a year of political rebellions. Donald Drumpf and Bernie Sanders are the two biggest examples. And one of the few issues that unites them is driving the other rebellion: a rejection of political fundraising.

Some members have compared the endless need for campaign cash to torture. Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.), who wrote in the New York Times a few months ago that he spent 4,200 hours in the last 16 years asking for money, equated dialing for dollars to “waterboarding.”


June 13, 2016

By: Sam Catherman, BABW News
June 13, 2016

The Great Lakes are under threat from potentially toxic algal blooms, and Midwestern states are stepping up to take action in an effort to control the problem. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Ohio is just the most recent state to take measures to bring the harmful algal blooms back to safe levels ahead of the summer season.


June 13, 2016

By: Mary-Louise Hoffman, Executive Gov
June 13, 2016

House Appropriations Committee members have cleared a bill that would provide $21.7 billion to fund operations of the Treasury Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Small Business Administration and U.S. federal courts for fiscal year 2017.