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March 11, 2024

Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) released the following statement on the announced retirement of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia L. Fudge which will take place later this month.


March 11, 2024

Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development and Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) Chair of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs announced that the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) will award $28,497,650 to the Riverfront Infrastructure Vitality and Equity Restoration (RIVER) in East Toledo project for the City of Toledo through a Neighborhood Access and Equity grant award. This project will reconnect residents of East Toledo to greenspace, economic opportunity, and improved quality of life by improving access across Front Street.


March 8, 2024

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development released the following statement after the House and Senate passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 to fund Energy and Water Development, Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, Military Construction and Veter


March 7, 2024

Washington, DC — Tonight, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development and Co-Chair of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus released the following statement following President Biden’s State of the Union address: 

“The American people elected Joe Biden as President because they knew he would invest in communities across our country. Over the last three years he has done just that.


March 6, 2024

Washington, DC — Today, the House of Representatives passed the 2024 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act as part of a package of six appropriations bills which will fund government operations through September 30th 2024.This legislation will now go on to the United States Senate for passage, before going to President Biden to be signed into law.


In the News

February 24, 2016
By: Tom Jackson, Toledo Blade
February 24, 2016
With Ohio battling to turn around the harmful algal bloom problem in Lake Erie, a group of northern Ohio residents aren't leaving Congressional action to chance.
More than a dozen northern Ohio residents are in Washington, D.C., this week, joining citizens from other Great Lakes states who are talking to federal lawmakers to press for action on Great Lakes water issues.
The local delegation includes La

February 22, 2016
By: Toledo Blade
February 22, 2016
Congressman Marcy Kaptur visits with Caroline Foley, Northwood, as she waits for her husband Walter at the Toledo Veterans Outpatient Clinic, Wednesday, February 17, 2016. Kaptur was there in part greeting veterans and family as part of National Salute to Veterans Week.

February 22, 2016
By: Tom Henry, Toledo Blade
February 22, 2016
Though delayed for at least another two months, Canada’s eventual decision over the fate of a 15-year-old proposal to build a deep underground repository for low and intermediate-level nuclear waste a mile from Lake Huron is being watched on both sides of the border.
Many people believe the decision has broader implications for the U.S.

February 22, 2016
By: Hazel Bradford, Pensions & Investments
February 22, 2016
With three multiemployer pension plans moving to cut benefits, pension advocates are pushing to derail the law that made such steps possible before there are more, while other experts press for new plan designs.
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., the federal agency charged with insuring private-sector pensions, estimates that 1.5 million people are covered by severely underfunded multiemployer plans at risk of becoming i

February 20, 2016
By: Brad Dicken, The Chronicle-Telegram
February 20, 2016
The Lorain County Land Bank will receive $3.3 million from the federal government to demolish homes in blighted areas in Elyria and Lorain.
The money comes from $2 billion being distributed through U.S. Department of Treasury’s Hardest Hit Fund. Ohio will receive nearly $97.6 million under the program, according to a news release from U.S. Rep.