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December 1, 2025

Toledo, OH – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) received confirmation from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that funding for Toledo Public Schools Head Start Program has been certified and will resume immediately. Congresswoman Kaptur, Senator Husted, and Senator Moreno made multiple daily inquires to HHS to ensure funding would meet the December 1st deadline. Toledo Public Schools receives $10 Million every six months for this critical early education program.


December 1, 2025
Toledo, OH – Today, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) released the following statement after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) failed to provide funding for Toledo Public Schools Head Start Program, causing the closure of the program effective immediately, today December 1st.

November 26, 2025
Toledo, OH — Today, on the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) and the Area Office on Aging (AOoA) are reminding older adults 60+ across Northwest Ohio about the importance of using their Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP) benefits before they expire at the end of November.

November 25, 2025

Washington, DC –  Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus; Congressman Adam Smith (WA-09), Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee; Congressman Gregory W.


November 24, 2025

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:


In the News

January 31, 2017

Last week, President Trump canceled U.S. participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade organization made up of 12 nations, including Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam… Yet when NAFTA was passed, despite warnings from Ross Perot, Ralph Nader, and Marcy Kaptur.


January 30, 2017

The Trump administration's executive order banning immigrants and refugees from seven majority-Muslim nations may affect college students in northwest Ohio… U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D., Toledo) condemned the order and invited president Trump to meet with refugees who have moved to Ohio.


January 27, 2017

"The Democratic representative for Ohio's 9th congressional district is honoured as one of Hungary's greatest friends," Ambassador to Washington Reka Szemerkenyi, said at the ceremony in the US capital on Tuesday evening.


January 25, 2017

Katherine Ozer, a longtime advocate for small farmers, farmworkers and sustainable agriculture, who helped lead the push for federal legislation to ease credit for financially strapped farmers, died Jan. 22 at a hospital in Philadelphia. She was 58… "She pushed some of the most difficult challenges facing rural America," Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) said in an interview.


January 25, 2017

The march began at Public Square in downtown Cleveland, traveled to City Hall, and looped back to Public Square. Ohio leaders, including U.S. Reps. Marcia Fudge, D-Warrensville Heights, and Marcy Kaptur, D-Toledo, spoke before and after the march.