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Toledo, OH – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) announced the delivery of $4.9 Million in federal funding through the FY24 FEMA Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) and Staffing For Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) programs to fire departments across Northwest Ohio, marking a higher level of funding than the previous year and providing critical resources that directly enhance firefighter and public safety.
Washington DC – Today, Representatives Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Dave Joyce (OH-14), Debbie Dingell (MI-06), Bill Huizenga (MI-04), Frank Mrvan (IN-01), Tim Kennedy (NY-26), Randy Weber (TX-14), Claudia Tenney (NY-24), Erin Houchin (IN-09), and Robin Kelly (IL-02) led the bipartisan introduction of the Securing Smart Investments in our Ports Act. This legislation strengthens the Port Infrastructure Development Program (PIDP) by ensuring federal investments are distributed more evenly across regional port systems nationwide.
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) and Congresswoman Shontel M.
Toledo, OH — Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) denounced the Trump Administration Commerce Department’s abrupt decision to freeze all federal support and funding, effective immediately for Ohio’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) program — a bipartisan, Congressionally-appropriated initiative that has served thousands of Ohio manufacturers for decades.
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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.
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.
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.
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.