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December 17, 2024

Washington, DC – Today, Vice Chairs of the Congressional Labor Caucus Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), and Congressman Chris Deluzio (PA-17) together with the Co-Chairs of the Labor Caucus Congressman Donald Norcross (NJ-01), Congressman Mark Pocan (WI-02), Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12), and Congressman Steven Horsford (NV-04) led a letter to President Biden calling for him to block the sale of American owned US Steel to a foreign buyer, Japanese owned Nippon Steel.


December 16, 2024

Toledo, Ohio – On Friday, December 16 Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), hosted a reception at the National Museum of the Great Lakes to honor winners and other outstanding submission for the 9th District Congressional App Challenge.  Twenty applications from five schools in Ohio’s 9th Congressional District competed this year including students from: Bryan Middle School, Sandusky High School, The Bounty Collegium, Sylvania Northview High School and Sylvania Southview High School. Erie, Lucas and Williams Counties were each represented.


December 13, 2024

Toledo, OH – Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) announced significant federal awards to the University of Toledo Health Science Campus, highlighting the university’s pivotal role in advancing cancer research and improving public health outcomes. The awards from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), total over $680,000 and will support innovative studies that promise to enhance understanding and treatment of cancer and other health challenges.

Issues: Health Care

December 11, 2024

Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), a senior member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense voted to pass the National Defense Authorization Act of 2025. The legislation passed by a vote of 281 to 140, and now moves to the United States Senate for consideration.


December 9, 2024

Washington, DC – Today, the House of Representatives unanimously passed legislation which would designate United States Route 20 in the States of Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Massachusetts as the "National Medal of Honor Highway.” The legislation was led by Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), and Congressman Mike Kelly (PA-16) in the House and Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Mike Crapo (R-ID) in the Senate. This stretch of US Route 20 passes through Northern Ohio and towns and cities in Ohio’s 9th Congressional District including Pioneer, Fayette, Toledo, Maumee, Perrysburg, Woodville, Fremont, and Clyde.


In the News

May 11, 2016
By: Sabrina Eaton, The Plain Dealer
May 11, 2016
As opioid overdose deaths ravage the nation, the House of Representatives is set to pass 18 pieces of legislation intended to fight the epidemic.
Among other things, the proposals would make it easier for emergency responders to access overdose reversal drugs like Naloxone, establish a task force to modify how pain medication is prescribed, and reduce the amount of painkillers given to patients by letting them partly fill opioid prescrip

May 8, 2016
By: David Yonke, News Herald
May 8, 2016
The Jet Express on Friday launched its 28th season of ferrying folks back and forth to the Lake Erie islands, with local officials taking turns lauding the ferry line for its contributions to the area's economy.
"This Jet Express isn't only for members of the community here.

May 6, 2016
By: Jon Chavez, Toledo Blade
May 6, 2016
Come Sunday, the old gray goose will have flown the coop permanently.
Bombrys Ornamental Concrete Inc., a Toledo mom-and-pop business that for 60 years made and sold concrete fountains, birdbaths, gargoyles, angels, religious statues, and yes, the ever-popular concrete goose, is going out of business on Saturday.
Its owner, John Bombrys, is retiring and liquidating the business.

May 6, 2016
By: Naomi Jagoda, The Hill
May 6, 2016
The Treasury Department is poised to decide whether to approve a plan for the Central States Pension Fund that would significantly reduce benefits for hundreds of thousands of current and future retirees.
If the cuts are approved, they would be the first benefit reductions the Treasury signed off on under the Multiemployer Pension Reform Act (MPRA) of 2014, which allows pension funds headed toward insolvency to petition the department to cut benef

May 6, 2016
By: Jim MacKinnon, Beacon Journal
May 6, 2016
Retired Teamsters facing imminent massive cuts to their pensions won a significant battle Friday that preserves their monthly retirement checks but still leaves open the huge issue of how to keep their pension plan solvent in years ahead.
The struggling Central States Pension Fund, which sought to cut monthly pensions — some by as much as 69 percent — to hundreds of thousands of Teamsters starting July 1 to remain solvent, had its proposal