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Columbus, OH 43215
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Ohio’s 9th Congressional District includes all of Erie, Defiance, Fulton, Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky, and Williams Counties along with a portion of Northern Wood County.
Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur!
“The people of Ohio’s 9th District have spoken, and I am deeply grateful for the trust they have placed in me to continue fighting for working families, creating good-paying jobs, protecting healthcare for everyone, and securing Social Security and Medicare so Ohioans can retire with dignity. This campaign has always been about the strength and resilience of our communities, and today we celebrate not just a victory but a renewed commitment to the belief that what America makes and grows, makes and grows America.
Together, we have delivered for Northwest Ohio, reinvesting in our communities, our industries, and our people. I am inspired by the hardworking people across our district who fuel our economy every day and pledge to continue our work to grow jobs here at home, strengthen our manufacturing sector, and ensure dignity and stability for everyone who works hard and plays by the rules. It is time to put partisanship aside and get back to work for America’s ‘Big Middle.’” ~~ Marcy Kaptur
About Marcy
The daughter of a Polish-American, working-class family, Marcy’s life and service mirror the bootstrap, hardworking nature of her district. Her family ran a small grocery and her mother also worked at Champion Spark Plug, where she helped organize the workers into an auto trade union.
Marcy Kaptur began her public career as an urban policy adviser to President Carter. She and her colleagues crafted numerous bills on housing and urban development, including the Community Reinvestment Act. In 1982, while pursuing a Ph.D. at MIT, she was recruited by 
local Democratic Party leaders to run against the incumbent Republican, whom she defeated in an upset that attracted national attention.
Today, Marcy is the longest serving woman in the House of Representatives, and is Chair of the House’s Energy and Water Appropriations Committee. She has been able to leverage her experience and seniority on the Appropriations Committee to secure vital federal investments for the Ninth District, focusing on jobs, economic growth, infrastructure and support for veterans and our military. Working across party lines, she fought for and succeeded in the creation of a National World War II Memorial on the National Mall to honor our Greatest Generation. The idea came from a constituent at a community event, proving that in our democracy the best action comes from the bottom up.
Marcy has dedicated her career in public service to fighting for all Ohioans to have a fair playing field in order to achieve economic and health security. That includes fighting the special interests in Washington to make sure the federal government is working for the American people, not wealthy donors and lobbyists. This is nowhere better illustrated than in her decades-long fight against unfair trade deals such as NAFTA and CAFTA that have hollowed out our middle-class sending good paying Ohio jobs to low wage countries overseas and hollowed out our communities.
Marcy is a champion for the Midwest in Congress. She is focused on getting big money out of politics, holding Wall Street accountable, ensuring access to health care for all, reducing the costs of prescription drugs, ensuring affordable quality education for all who seek it, and restoring our Great Lakes economy and environment.
A lifelong resident of Ohio, Marcy is a member of Little Flower Roman Catholic Church and a graduate of St. Ursula Academy. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in history from the University of Wisconsin and a Master of Arts in urban planning from the University of Michigan.
Marcy has never forgotten where she came from. Once in Congress, she secured investments from the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up the very Champion Spark Plug site that her mother worked at years ago, helping to make it safe for new economic development and residents living around the plant. She continues the fight to restore neighborhoods and town squares throughout northern Ohio.
She is a true fighter for working people.
23 things Marcy accomplished in 2023!
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She brought home $1.25 million in federal funding for a new TPS Electric Vehicle Center at Toledo Technology Academy of Engineering.
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She broke ground on the new Wayman D. Palmer YMCA, a state-of-the-art recreation facility for which we secured over $21 million in federal funding.
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She proudly stood in solidarity with UAW workers on the picket line, winning a new contract that guarantees fair wages, better benefits, safer working conditions, and the ability to retire with dignity.
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She brought home $10.7 million in funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to repair the Northwest Ohio shoreline railroad, which has been called “the worst railroad in America.”
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She secured a $1.8 million federal grant for mental health and addiction treatment at the Erie County Health Department.
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She announced $600,000 in CDC funding for the Junction Coalition, which will support community engagement, educational programming, and lead-exposure mitigation in Toledo.
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She introduced the Restoring Communities Left Behind Act, to deliver millions of dollars in federal grants that will revitalize our communities and support working people.
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She reintroduced the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, a historic bill to protect workers’ rights from coast to coast.
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She secured $1.9 million in funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to transform Put-in-Bay Airport to meet 21st-century needs.
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She fought for and won funding for the Great Lakes Authority in the Fiscal Year 2024 budget.
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She reduced the prices of prescription drugs for Medicare recipients — including capping the cost of insulin at $35 per month — thanks to President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.
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She continued to fight back against Republican attacks on Social Security and Medicare.
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She introduced the bipartisan Office of Manufacturing and Industrial Innovation Policy Act, to restore American manufacturing in communities like ours.
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She worked with legislators from across the aisle to improve the safety of our railways after disastrous train derailments in Ohio communities.
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She reintroduced the Farmers Market and Food Bank Local Revitalization Act, which provides nutrition security for seniors and families while supporting our local farmers, markets, and food banks.
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She reintroduced the Return to Prudent Banking Act to reign in Wall Street and protect the finances of working people.
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She introduced the Child Care for Working Families Act, which would make child care affordable for working families and support higher wages for child care workers.
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She secured a $20 million RAISE grant to improve Toledo’s infrastructure and make our city safer, greener, and more walkable.
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She introduced the bipartisan Law Enforcement Training for Mental Health Crisis Response Act.
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She brought home more than $9 million in federal funds for a new zero-emission bus fleet in the Toledo area.
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She introduced the Social Security 2100 Act, to protect and fund this vital program for generations to come.
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She reintroduced the Equality Act, the long-overdue legislation to protect the civil rights of every American, regardless of who they are and who they love.
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She delivered a $7 million federal award to the University of Toledo Health Sciences Campus, which will directly support cutting-edge research and attract the best and the brightest to our state.