Skip to main content

Newsroom

Latest News

February 18, 2026
Toledo, OH – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus released the following statement on negotiations to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“I am alarmed by reports that the Trump Administration is pressuring Ukraine into ceding its sovereign territory and the people who live on it to Russia as part of ongoing negotiations to end Russia’s war on Ukraine.
“Russia is not winning this war—it is losing more soldiers every month than during its entire 10-year war in Afghanistan.
Issues: Trade

February 17, 2026

Toledo, OH — Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) released the following statement on the passing of Reverend Jesse Jackson:


February 17, 2026

Toledo, OH – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), joined Congresswoman Shontel Brown (OH-11), Congresswoman Joyce Beatty (OH-03), and Congressman Greg Landsman (OH-01) in submitting an official public comment letter to US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott T


February 11, 2026

Washington, DC — Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus, and Congressman Michael McCaul (TX-10) — Chairman Emeritus of the House Foreign Affairs Committee — introduced the Decreasing Russian Oil Profits (DROP) Act of 2026.

Issues: Trade Energy

February 10, 2026

Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) Co-Chair of the House Great Lakes Task Force, Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and a senior member of the House Appropriations Subcommittees on Agriculture, and Defense released the following statement in response to President Trump’s February 9, 2026 statement in which he said he would not allow the opening of the $6 Billion Gordie Howe Bridge between Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ontario, Canada.


In the News

March 13, 2017

A much-anticipated analysis of the Republican party's plan to repeal and replace Obamacare would leave an extra 24 million people without insurance in the next decade while cutting federal budget deficits by $337 billion.

Issues: Health Care

March 12, 2017

Democratic Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur has invited President Donald Trump to visit Lorain and help prevent the closure of some of the city's steel operations.

U.S. Steel plans to permanently close one of its tubular operations in June, after idling it in 2015. That part of the plant makes smaller pipes; Kaptur says there's been less demand for those pipes with the downturn in the natural gas industry. She says Trump could start by placing a tariff on foreign steel.


February 3, 2017

U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D., Toledo), along with one other Democrat and two Republicans, today introduced a resolution aimed at uniting Congress behind a tougher line on Russian aggression in Ukraine. The resolution calls on Russia to stop violating the agreed upon cease-fire, and stop the violence in eastern Ukraine. Miss Kaptur, a founding co-chair of the House Ukraine Caucus, attributed the resolution to new attacks by Russia on Avdiivka in the Donetsk Region of Ukraine.


February 1, 2017

Ohio Democrats Marcy Kaptur and Tim Ryan aren't huge fans of newly elected GOP president Donald Trump, but there's at least one campaign promise they want him to carry out.