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Toledo, OH – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) announced that three Northwest Ohio organizations have been awarded a combined total of more than $3.7 Million in new federal funding from the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families. These awards, made through the Responsible Fatherhood Program, will strengthen families by supporting fathers with tools for responsible parenting, healthy relationships, and economic stability.
The recipients are:
Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) voted against the Senate Amendment to H.R. 5371 – Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs. Upon her vote, Congresswoman Kaptur released the following statement decrying the corruption in the bill that would enrich Senators believed linked to the January 6 Insurrection plot, while failing to address the imminent health care crisis that will cause insurance rates to increase by 114% nationwide.
Washington, DC — Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, sent a
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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.