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Toledo, OH — Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) announced that two Toledo airports will receive awards totaling $3,677,990 from the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) to improve passenger and crew safety and for facility updates and upgrades. The Eugene F. Kranz Toledo Express Airport (TOL), Toledo’s commercial passenger airport and home to the Ohio Air National Guard’s 180th Fighter Wing, will receive $2,836,854 through the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Toledo, OH — Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus, and a senior member of the House Defense Subcommittee on Appropriations joined local partners to announce that after receiving its first Pentagon contract, Ukrainian Defense Drones (UDD) has chosen Northwest Ohio for its first major US assembly and manufacturing center. UDD, the US company representing Ukraine’s F-Drones, is expected to make an $18.4 Million investment for the new production project in the Village of Holland, creating at least 300 new jobs.
Toledo, OH – Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) is honored to recognize the artistic talents of all the participants of the 43rd Annual 9th Congressional District Art Competition. Today she announced that this year’s winner is Light Phillipps a student at the Toledo School for the Arts. Congresswoman Kaptur also announced that the first runner up was Millie Wilcox from Genoa Area Schools with a piece titled “Golden Hour,” and the second runner up was Acelin Schroder’s “Sweet Harvest” from Whitmer High School.
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President Donald Trump's campaign rhetoric on trade hit like a cannonball across our Great Lakes heartland. From steel to solar panels, workers have been devastated by bad trade deals. Unfair market practices from China, Korea, and other nations that rig the global marketplace in their favor. The middle class and working families throughout Ohio took a chance on Donald Trump. So now, where is America on trade 100 days into Trump's Presidency?
As rumors swirl about its demise, a coalition of lawmakers is imploring the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to preserve its Midwest regional office in Chicago. In a bipartisan letter released on Tuesday, lawmakers asked EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt to commit to keeping open the office they say is critical to protecting the health of the Great Lakes.
A day after White House economic adviser Gary Cohn said he would support efforts to separate Wall Street's investment banking operations from consumer lending, a group of lawmakers proposed legislation that would do just that.
It's time for the Trump Administration to make good on campaign promises to Ohio's manufacturing workers.
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D., Ohio), Sen. Rob Portman (R., Ohio), and Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D., Toledo) have invited President Trump's commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, to Lorain to see how unfair trade has damaged the region's steel industry.
This week The Rough Draft Diaries chats with Democratic Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur. Marcy is the U.S. Representative for Ohio's 9th congressional district, stretching from Toledo to Cleveland, who has served since 1983. This episode covers Marcy's journey from her hometown of Toledo to Washington D.C and the lessons she has learned along the way.