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July 21, 2024

Toledo, OH — Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) released a statement following the announcement by President Joe Biden that he will not seek reelection to the presidency, and will choose to retire at the end of his term in office:


July 19, 2024

Toledo, OH — Tonight, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) released the following statement on the passing of Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18):

"My heart extends to the family, friends, and constituents of our dear, indefatigable, omnipresent colleague, Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas. What an amazingly faithful sister and Representative was she. It is hard to conceive her essence has transformed to the supernatural. Her life on earth packed a century and a half of effort into her 7+ decades. She never stopped.


July 17, 2024

Washington, DC — Today, the Co-Chairs of the bipartisan Congressional Ukraine Caucus, Representatives Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-09), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA-01), Mike Quigley (D-IL-05), and Joe Wilson (R-SC-02) released the following statement on the conclusion of the 2024 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Summit in Washington, DC:


July 15, 2024

Toledo, OH – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), announced that the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has awarded a prestigious research grant to the University of Toledo Health Science Campus. The award, totaling $3.85 Million over five years, will support groundbreaking research on the potential of conjugated bile acids as nutritionally re-programmable antihypertensive metabolites.

Issues: Health Care

July 11, 2024

Washington, DC — Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, announced a $32,617,879 EV Conversion Grants program award for American Autoparts and Mobis North America. The Project consists of two phases where American Autoparts will convert its existing ICE complete chassis assembly plant located at the Stellantis Toledo Assembly Complex, into a PHEV and ICE complete chassis assembly plant, retaining 345 UAW union jobs and creating an estimated 38 new union labor jobs supporting the manufacture of a new light PHEV truck, and construct a new battery syst


In the News

April 22, 2016
By: Deirdre Shesgreen, Telegraph-Forum
April 22, 2016
Legislation to address the nation’s heroin epidemic could hit the House floor as soon as next month, with Democrats and Republicans alike pushing for a sweeping response to the deadly scourge.
Lawmakers representing the hardest-hit states, from New Hampshire to Ohio, unveiled a package of 15 bills Thursday — outlining big goals such as criminal justice reform and smaller ones such as increasing access to the overdose antidote naloxo

April 21, 2016
By: Elizabeth Ouzts and John Rumpler, Environment America
April 21, 2016
Today the U.S. Senate, by a vote of 56-42, rejected a move by Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) to block the Obama administration's landmark Clean Water Rule. Meanwhile yesterday, more than two dozen senators led by Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) introduced a comprehensive package to protect our drinking water from lead and other health threats.

April 21, 2016
By: National Farmers Union
April 21, 2016
After several years of proactively limiting farmers’ basic rights and protections, Congress appeared poised to finally let the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) implement a provision included in the 2008 Farm Bill to provide needed marketplace protections to contract farmers.

April 21, 2016
By: Alexandra Bradbury, Labor Notes
April 21, 2016
Over 2,000 retirees and Teamsters from 20 states rallied in front of the U.S.

April 21, 2016
By: Keith C. Burris, Toledo Blade
April 21, 2016
A friend said: “I think it’s a shame presidential campaigns turn on independents. I don’t get the independents.