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January 26, 2024

Toledo, OH  – Tuesday, January 23, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), and Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz hosted a press conference and groundbreaking with local and regional leaders from the Toledo-Lucas Port Authority, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, the Environmental Protection Agency’s Great Lakes National Program Office, and the city of Toledo to break ground on construction to help restore and protect the Clark Island and Delaware/Horseshoe Islands, which are City of Toledo-owned islands in the Maumee River.


January 19, 2024

Over 1.8 million Palestinians in Gaza have been displaced since Oct. 7 

“The United States must ensure that there is no question that Palestinian civilians who wish to remain in the Gaza Strip must be allowed to do so.” 

Text of Letter (PDF) 


January 11, 2024

Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) and Congresswoman Ashley Hinson (IA-02) introduced the bipartisan Opioid Settlement Accountability Act, legislation aimed at ensuring the funds that states receive from opioid settlements are used to fight the epidemic and are focused towards treatment, prevention, education, and enforcement.

Issues: Health Care

January 3, 2024

Toledo, OH – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) and Congressional Labor Caucus Co-Chairs Representatives Mark Pocan (WI-06), Donald Norcross (NJ-01), Steven Horsford (NV-04), and Debbie Dingell (MI-06) led a letter with Chris Deluzio (PA-17), Emilia Sykes (OH-13), Nikki Budzinski (IL-13), and 45 other bipartisan Members of Congress urging the Biden Administration to ensure a comprehensive regulatory review of Nippon Steel’s acquisition of US Steel. 


December 20, 2023

Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) released the following statement announcing Ishan Chopra of Sandusky Middle School as the winner of the Ohio 9th Congressional District’s fifth annual student Congressional App Challenge. Yesterday, December 19, Congresswoman Kaptur hosted winner Ishan Chopra, and other participants in the 2023 OH-09 Congressional App Challenge and their families for an award and recognition ceremony. Additional standout applications came from Nathan Stubleski and Adam Prymas of St.


In the News

March 9, 2016
By: Taylor Dungjen, Toledo Blade
March 9, 2016
More than 700 times, Andrew “Bud” Fisher has sat across from war veterans to hear and collect their stories.
Each of those recorded interviews has been archived in the Library of Congress, part of the Veterans History Project, and at the University of Toledo’s Ward M. Canaday Center.
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March 9, 2016
By: Brian Francisco, The Journal Gazette
March 9, 2016
Retired freight drivers and warehouse workers facing drastic reductions in their pension benefits say they cannot get the attention of federal lawmakers who represent northeast Indiana.
So about 30 people, carrying signs imploring “Hands Off Our Pensions,” marched Tuesday afternoon in front of the E. Ross Adair Federal Building, where Sen. Dan Coats and Rep.

March 9, 2016
By: Tom Henry, Toledo Blade
March 9, 2016
From water-treatment plants to shelters for military veterans, a number of business and government leaders brainstormed Tuesday on ways different facilities and neighborhoods might be able to conserve more energy and save costs with cleaner and less-expensive power.
The gathering was organized by the office of U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D., Toledo) for many officials within the 9th Congressional District she represents.

March 9, 2016
By: Adam Mossoff and Devlin Hartline, The Hill
March 9, 2016
Two recent op-eds published in The Hill argue that broad patent legislation—misleadingly labeled “reform”—is needed because the U.S. patent system is fundamentally broken. In the first, Timothy Lee contends that opponents “cannot with a straight face” argue that we don’t need wide-sweeping changes to our patent system. In the second, Michele Boldrin and David K.

March 9, 2016
By: Taylor Dungjen, Toledo Blade
March 9, 2016
More than 700 times, Andrew “Bud” Fisher has sat across from war veterans to hear and collect their stories.
Each of those recorded interviews has been archived in the Library of Congress, part of the Veterans History Project, and at the University of Toledo’s Ward M. Canaday Center.
Mr.