Marcy Kaptur
Representative for Ohio · Democratic · United States
“They increase the cost of everything. Rising prices especially hit hard in my home State of Ohio, the largest exporter of goods to Canada in the Great Lakes region. Numbers don't lie. U.S. exports to Canada keep going down.”
House of Representatives15 September 2026Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, the President's U.S. Trade Ambassador was born in California, graduated from college in Utah, and lived in Virginia. He does not know anything about the Great Lakes region or our economy. The Great Lakes economy is the third largest in the world, amounting to over $6 trillion.”
House of Representatives15 September 2026Source ↗
“This magnificent suspension bridge, built totally with Canadian financing, coupled with the might of American union muscle, will usher in a new horizon for our international and connected economies and freshwater kingdom. This achievement will lift up our industrial and agricultural nations to new possibilities.”
House of Representatives23 July 2026Source ↗
“It hurts every single American calling in to the Federal Government and trying to get answers to questions they have because of understaffing and uncertainty. This isn't the way to run a country of 340 million people. Someone has to restore regular order to this Congress and this House.”
House of Representatives22 July 2026Source ↗
“These Arrows well represented our State and the academy at the UDA National Dance Team Competition earning a silver placement in jazz and a bronze placement in pom. I was able to present a flag flown over the U.S.”
House of Representatives22 July 2026Source ↗
“A retired Toledo detective now teaching criminal justice at Washington Local School District's Whitmer High School, he brings 25 years of field experience to the classroom. Mr. Cowell's deep compassion extends to every student he encounters. A former student at Whitmer, Alivia Garcia, who wasn't even a student of Mr.”
House of Representatives22 July 2026Source ↗
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“They live at a simple level. Sweaters and boots for the men as they go through the forests, and bicycles--there are so many things that are needed there that we just throw away. We just throw away material and plastics so that they can keep the wind out of their very humble homes in the wintertime. I think there are so many things that people just take for granted that are here but that are, especially during a time of war, so expensive for them. Their salaries have been cut, and I think Americans can do a lot. Be creative. Do for them what you would do for your own family, Mr. Speaker. {time} 2100 I want to mention, as I think about and reflect when I was first elected to Congress, there was a Congressman from California named Tom Lantos. He was a Holocaust survivor. He was from Hungary, and he was imprisoned by Hitler.”
House of Representatives28 April 2025Source ↗
“Slava Ukraini. I know that the people who are listening tonight and will hear our words will say: What can we do, Marcy? What can we do to really help them? I said that children in classrooms can write little notes and send them. If they use the internet and if they have internet capability, then send them a note. Teachers all over our country: Don't expect just the Government of the United States to do this. The American people are powerful in their own right. If you do shoe drives where you have a school or a company and you see that everybody has some pairs of shoes that don't fit them that still have a lot of good wear, then put them in a box and send them off. The same thing is true with aspirin and creams for people's hands. They work with their hands. They need gloves to work with the soil. They raise their own food.”
House of Representatives28 April 2025Source ↗
“They are very thrifty and practical people. They are educated. Many of the Ukrainians I meet speak several languages. They want to meet the world. They don't want to be put inside a cage again. That is really what they face. I wanted to say a few things about my family if the gentlewoman wanted to add anything now. I wanted to mention a few of the people I have met who fought during World War II and allowed for some of Europe to be free.”
House of Representatives28 April 2025Source ↗
“They need everything. They need tourniquets. I mentioned arms. They need to be remembered. The Government of the United States is only about one-quarter of our economy, but 75 percent of our economy is private. People can send boxes. They can remember them. They can send money through Western Union to the people of Ukraine and to help those who are living in Poland in order to help them meet the costs of having the refugees who come from Ukraine into Poland. There is so much Americans can do. People in my district raised money to send a shower, for them to buy a shower so they could put it in the local school so people could actually clean themselves where the lights keep going off and Russia makes it hard for people. You can send seed, Mr. Speaker, so that it is easier for people to be able to plant in their gardens.”
House of Representatives28 April 2025Source ↗
“I have been into wards with people who are mentally ill, and I have seen the sad situation in which they live. I couldn't even imagine someone from my family having to exist in those conditions. I have walked across the country in different places and met Russians who are trying to make a go of it by growing food and getting it into the bigger cities. I have tried to visit religious institutions in Russia and learned how the government there suppresses free religious expression. They force any church there, if they even allow it in, to speak in Russian, not the native language, let's say, of where the people might come who would want to have that ceremony in multilingual or even translated and be able to listen to that. Russia doesn't do that. She is very inward. The birthrate is going down in Russia. I have been in birth wards in Russia.”
House of Representatives28 April 2025Source ↗
“The fierce fighting that the Ukrainians have exhibited through bravery against that is profound. I am just so honored, and I know the gentlewoman feels the same way, to have met President Zelenskyy and so many of his advisers, individuals in the military, and wounded soldiers. Russia has lost over 100,000 soldiers. We are not sure how many. It is a lot. Those soldiers didn't have to die. They could be doing things in Russia to help Russia. I have traveled there. I have seen the level at which people live. The Russian people deserve better. Why is Putin wasting all this money on arms? He needs to be investing in housing. I have gone up eight-story skyscrapers where--I won't even talk about the sanitary conditions, but they are not good.”
House of Representatives28 April 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, I thank Congresswoman Dean so very much for joining us and for her firm, firm support of Ukraine and all she has done to give light to the children of Ukraine and thousands upon thousands, over 20,000 minimum, stolen by Russia and taken back to Russia from the arms of their parents in Ukraine as Russia tries to reprogram their brain to become Russian. I think that the leadership of the gentlewoman has been very important during this entire period of the war and for all the people who have died needlessly, as Ukraine is the scrimmage line for liberty on the European Continent. As the map behind the gentlewoman so well illustrates, any American or reasonable person looking at that would say: Why is Russia picking on such a small country?”
House of Representatives28 April 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, I thank Congressman Quigley for his strong and constant support of Ukraine. I thank the gentleman so much for representing the State of Illinois and the thousands and tens of thousands of citizens there who so deeply care about victory for Ukraine. Let me now move to a highly capable Member from the eastern part of the great State of Pennsylvania, Congresswoman Madeleine Dean.”
House of Representatives28 April 2025Source ↗
“Defending freedom's alliance is our highest calling here--to protect and defend the American people and our Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Quigley) and from the great city of Chicago, our capable co-chair of the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus.”
House of Representatives28 April 2025Source ↗
“Short of that, with the apparent abdication of the U.S. President, Vice President, and Secretary of State, Ukraine has everything to lose and Russia everything to gain. Who would want that outcome? What kind of mindset would want that? The White House isn't leading a legitimate peace process. It is enabling the globally aggressive reach of the most lethal dictatorship in Europe. The free world must not allow this. Putin will take everything he wants and more unless he is stopped. America must not appease dictators. We should support our fierce allies to fight dictatorship with every fiber in our being. Ukraine needs ammunition and arms. We must send them. They are not asking us to fight, but they are asking us to help arm them along with our European allies.”
House of Representatives28 April 2025Source ↗
“Aggressor Putin wants the United States to walk away from the negotiating table. According to the terms the U.S. Vice President and Secretary of State laid out today, those terms include ceding Ukraine's territory to Russia. I say no. Nyet. Nemaye. No. The fact is Russia is losing the war it started without provocation. In 2014, she began during the Olympics, so no one would notice how she went in the back door. It is losing the war that Putin started. He escalated it in even bloodier fashion when he initiated a full-scale invasion in the year 2022. Sadly, every step of the way, the Trump administration has conceded to Putin's demands without Ukraine's consent. He cannot negotiate for Ukraine. It is not his. Russia does not recognize international agreements. It never has.”
House of Representatives28 April 2025Source ↗
“Having traveled there many times, Vladimir Putin ought to take care of his own country. They have got major problems. Putin should help his own nation thrive again. He has no need for Ukraine, which is among the poorest Nations in Europe. Look how they are fighting for liberty. It brings tears to my eyes. Putin's plunder seeks to reconstitute the dictatorship, the vanquished Soviet dictatorship, that extended as far West as here. He wants those smaller countries. He wants them back. He longs for them, but they are not his. Putin now issues an ultimatum. He says there will be no peace deal unless Ukraine agrees to surrender territory that Russia ruthlessly and illegally seized and invaded, this little country, just as he did in Georgia. The United States, as leader of the free world, must never, ever genuflect to tyrants.”
House of Representatives28 April 2025Source ↗
“Forged from that coalition of suffering, our joint commitment to defend freedom above all else prevails. This moment for Ukraine--Russia and Ukraine--is a key moment in history. It is our generation's crucial test of freedom or subjugation. No succor can be allowed to a murderous dictatorship, no matter how many of Russia's rich oligarchs seek to plunder and steal from the sacred soils and minerals of Ukraine. The free West must stand united and say no. Lovers of freedom must not ignore history. Putin's illegal invasion of Crimea and other stolen territories in Ukraine should be forbidden and turned back. Conquest is his perversion and his corruption. No stolen territory from Ukraine should be ceded to Putin. Spanning 11 time zones, Russia holds enough territory.”
House of Representatives28 April 2025Source ↗
“Together, we and our allies honor our collective memory of our collective sacrifice and bloodshed that built the free world that the generation before us gave us. The Trump administration has proposed that the United States abandon and even scold our European allies. Let me be clear. Our Nation intergenerationally and painstakingly has built the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a global fortress of democratic nations. Across Europe, from the ruins of World War I and World War II lie the precious graves of 411,516 American soldiers and--no one knows exactly--35 million to 50 million Europeans who died fighting or in the crossfire. These heroes and heroines fought for the cause of liberty. Then they built a world order in which they attempted to enshrine it.”
House of Representatives28 April 2025Source ↗
“Russia invades territory that does not belong to it. If one looks at this map, Russia is a vast country of 11 time zones. It does not lack for territory. Here is Ukraine. Just think about that. West of that lies Europe. Study the map. Mr. Speaker, if you know nothing about Europe and that vast continent, think about 11 time zones and then our closest allies in the free world. Let that settle. The facts speak for themselves. If my colleagues need more proof, ask Poland, Georgia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and a dozen other countries that Russia covets. They cast off the Russian bear just a few decades ago, and Russia wants them back. Russia taunts our closest military allies across the European Continent.”
House of Representatives28 April 2025Source ↗
“Meanwhile, working Americans are being crushed with high interest rates, 401(k)'s losing value, unaffordable housing, and rising grocery prices. At a time when reckless U.S.-Canada Trump-era tariffs are devastating our farmers and manufacturers, when layoffs are funding cuts and gutting communities, and the Trump elite are toasting champagne and eating caviar. Really? This executive branch club isn't just an insult to the working class, but it is a vivid, grotesque portrait of ruling billionaires focused on totally enriching themselves and neglecting our Nation. Imagine what a half million dollars would buy in our communities for children or for seniors. This excess reminds me of the disgusting behavior of Emperor Nero, who rightly has been relegated to the dustbin of history. ____________________”
House of Representatives28 April 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, I rise to share the latest photo of the founding of another billionaire private club here in Washington, D.C., in Georgetown, for the superrich, spearheaded by Donald Trump, Jr.; JD Vance; and their billionaire buddies. Members can join for the low price of half a million dollars. They offer the richest of the rich a red carpet to buy influence and their way to power.”
House of Representatives28 April 2025Source ↗
“Help us with our best trade ally, Canada, especially those of us who live in the north. We believe in our fair trade partners around the world. Build on success. The American people need economic growth, not any more tourniquets around their necks because of tariffs. ____________________”
House of Representatives9 April 2025Source ↗
“trade accounts is an imperative and a worthy objective, but Trump administration tariffs on the American people's purchases are taxes that cost them more money on everything, a lot more: a lot more for food, for gas, for building materials, for cars, for trucks, for everything. Today, after the market bled off nearly $10 trillion in lost U.S. wealth last week, the President adjusted some tariffs, but nothing he did is reshoring American reinvestment here in our country. Our Nation imports three-quarters of our fruits and vegetables. We need agricultural reinvestment here in the good old USA. NAFTA caused the cataclysmic outsourcing of U.S. manufacturing in autos and trucks. The President should focus on incentives to reshore U.S. production, not build more barriers. Focus on free trade among free people.”
House of Representatives9 April 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, the United States has not had a trade surplus in over half a century. Trade deficits translate into lost jobs and lost wealth for the American people. Balancing U.S.”
House of Representatives9 April 2025Source ↗
“How do we take care of the American people's health? This Republican resolution is totally irresponsible. It is an abdication of our duty to serve all the American people, not just those at the top. Mr. Speaker, the top 1 percent of earners in this Nation control more wealth than the bottom 50 percent. It is time for economic fairness. Vote ``no'' on this resolution.”
House of Representatives9 April 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, I thank Ranking Member Boyle for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to stand against the GOP's billionaire bonanza. It cashes out precious healthcare dollars and enriches ultrawealthy billionaires and leaves ordinary Americans to pick up the tab. My colleagues across the aisle proposed to add an astounding $14 trillion more to our debt over the next decade. Why? It is to fund more tax cuts for billionaires. How? Speaker Johnson cuts hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid, a lifeline for millions of our citizens, including more than 200,000 in the district I represent. Every hospital I represent sustains itself with Medicaid and Medicare. This debate isn't just about the numbers on a balance sheet. It is about the health of the American people. How will we keep our hospitals open and our nursing homes open?”
House of Representatives9 April 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, with March Madness coming to a close last night, it is with joy that I rise to celebrate two exceptional young, local basketball stars from northwest Ohio: Makhi Leach from Whitmer High School and Elise Bender from Anthony Wayne High School, who were named the 2025 All-Blade Basketball Players of the Year. Makhi Leach is a force to be reckoned with on the court.”
House of Representatives8 April 2025Source ↗
“Today, the Dow Jones and Standard & Poor's continued their nosedive with the worst 3-day performance in nearly a half a century. These are not just numbers. They represent people losing wealth they worked for. It is evaporating retirement savings, businesses losing capital, cars not being sold, and rising unemployment that has started in industrial and agricultural America. Our people produce real products for market, and we know what pink slips are. Too many families are fearing for their financial futures, with senior citizens unable to meet the rising cost of living, including for food and medicine. Mr. Speaker, Congress must pass legislation to support sustained growth, not destroy wealth. The Trump extreme taxes must be stopped. ____________________”
House of Representatives7 April 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, needless chaos on U.S. financial markets must be quelled. Today's continuing historic losses on top of last week's are unprecedented, totalling over $6 trillion. That is trillion. This has never happened before. America's enemies are applauding. Congress needs to act to rein in this chaos. Trump tariffs of this magnitude equate to new taxes on everything the American people buy or own.”
House of Representatives7 April 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to introduce the Law Enforcement Training for Mental Health Crisis Response Act of 2025. This bill is a bipartisan effort alongside with Congresswoman Stephanie Bice of Oklahoma. Our goal is to ensure our officers have the tools they need to effectively and safely respond to mental health emergencies.”
House of Representatives31 March 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, today, I rise in disbelief at the troubling stories in ``The Atlantic'' magazine of classified attack plans carelessly leaked by the U.S. Department of Defense in a reckless and dangerous fashion. Congress must conduct a fully independent investigation with public and private congressional hearings. The highest national security and intelligence leaders of our Nation put American's servicemembers' lives at high risk.”
House of Representatives27 March 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to call out a vile attack on an American patriot, Senator Mark Kelly of the great State of Arizona. Yesterday, unelected billionaire Elon Musk, who has never served this Nation a day in uniform, called Senator Kelly a traitor for visiting our Nation's ally Ukraine. A traitor is one who commits treason. That consists of giving aid and comfort to an enemy. Ukraine is not our enemy.”
House of Representatives11 March 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, I move that the House do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; accordingly (at 7 o'clock and 44 minutes p.m.), under its previous order, the House adjourned until tomorrow, Tuesday, March 11, 2025, at 10 a.m. for morning-hour debate. ____________________”
House of Representatives10 March 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, today is the fourth worst day on U.S. financial markets since 2022. It appears the American people are in for a rough ride. Buckle your seatbelts. Prices are rising already, and our financial markets are turbulent in the wrong direction. Economic recession looms ahead. Unemployment is increasing and so is inflation. It wasn't supposed to be this way.”
House of Representatives10 March 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, this Women's History Month, I rise to honor and celebrate the remarkable achievement of Nicole Postan. Firefighter Postan has made history as the first full-time female firefighter in the Margaretta Township Fire Department. A native of Brunswick, Ohio, Nicole's dedication and passion for serving her community have set an inspiring example for all of us.”
House of Representatives10 March 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to oppose the big elephant in the room, the Trump administration's imposition of a 25 percent tariff on U.S.-Canada trade. It will severely impact jobs and companies in the Great Lakes region, including what I represent, Northwestern Ohio. My colleagues have heard it right. President Trump is going to put a 25 percent tariff on U.S.-Canadian trade. They are our best trading partner. What is going on over there?”
House of Representatives3 March 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, there is always good news in America. It is contained in the hearts of its people. I rise today in recognition of an extraordinary citizen of northwest Ohio, Mr. Steve Martin, for his selfless dedication to our community. Steve creates community.”
House of Representatives27 February 2025Source ↗
“The Afghan and Iraq wars declared by Republican Presidents added $8 trillion. If you look at this, two-thirds of what we owe were caused by the Republican side of the aisle. I represent a lot of Republicans, and I will tell you they are honest people and they will pay their taxes, but they don't like this excess. It is hurting America. The Republican budget is just a bonanza for billionaires. Shame on you.”
House of Representatives25 February 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, why is the Trump administration, Mr. Musk, and their secret meat grinder called DOGE hurting working Americans? Inflation is going up, unemployment is up, the stock market is rickety and went down again today, egg prices are up, and Walmart sales are down. So far, there is little evidence that DOGE is helping families. Indeed, they are causing more unemployment. They are not keeping us safer, and they are not helping anybody.”
House of Representatives24 February 2025Source ↗
“Musk and all of his alliances are doing across this country--to benefit the Republic. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.”
House of Representatives13 February 2025Source ↗
“Madam Speaker, today, I stand with the long-suffering people of Ukraine. Theirs is a valiant fight to reclaim their territory, their sovereignty, their security, and their destiny. Vladimir Putin brutally invaded 11 years ago with no provocation.”
House of Representatives12 February 2025Source ↗
“Madam Speaker, Ukraine is the scrimmage line for liberty on the continent of Europe today. We all have witnessed hundreds of thousands of war deaths at record levels in this 11-year, cruel war that Russia has perpetrated against the free nation of Ukraine. Russia had no provocation. For 30 years, Ukraine had tried to build her land forward. Importantly, this morning in Europe, U.S.”
House of Representatives12 February 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize and celebrate the achievements of Quinyon Mitchell, a proud University of Toledo Rocket and now a Super Bowl champion with the Philadelphia Eagles. Mr. Speaker, last year I stood before you and said that Quinyon Mitchell would make northwest Ohio proud on the national stage, and he has done exactly that, helping lead the Eagles to victory in Super Bowl LIX.”
House of Representatives11 February 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, I rise to celebrate and protect the largest system of freshwater on Earth: The Great Lakes. I will be introducing the bipartisan Great Lakes Gateways Network Act of 2025, alongside my talented colleague, David Joyce of Ohio. The Great Lakes have been declared a national treasure by executive order in 2004.”
House of Representatives10 February 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, an unelected, self-dealing multibillionaire who has made his vast fortune off huge government contracts should not be able to buy access to the U.S. Treasury, but he has done just that. For the princely sum of $250 million, Elon Musk bankrolled President Trump's reelection campaign. For that, he has been given the keys to the Treasury kingdom. Let's follow his footprints.”
House of Representatives6 February 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor and remember architect Friedrich St. Florian. He was a visionary architect whose profound design of the National World War II Memorial on our National Mall has left an indelible, enduring mark honoring our Nation's history along that historic Mall of democracy--our collective memory. Friedrich's architecture does more than commemorate.”
House of Representatives5 February 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, as with our colleagues, I rise tonight with a heavy heart as we mourn the devastating loss of 67 lives in the recent tragic plane crash over the Potomac. Among those lost were members of America's finest figure skating communities. Each of these talented Americans, both coaches and America's rising Olympic stars, sparkled just like the blades on the skates that they commanded.”
House of Representatives4 February 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, the people of northwest Ohio and the Great Lakes region, which is heavily industrial and agricultural, overwhelmingly oppose the Trump administration's ill-conceived trade war with Canada, Ohio's top fair trade partner and our largest fair trade partner.”
House of Representatives4 February 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, the pardons this week of violent felons who attacked our Capitol, injuring 174 of our Capitol Police, were a sacrilege against our Republic and our Constitution. Their actions were an affront on decency and a violent attack on the rule of law. Americans nationwide are outraged. Mr. Speaker, 140 law enforcement officers were assaulted and 174 sustained injuries. Officer Brian Sicknick died.”
House of Representatives23 January 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, I can hear the cheers rising in Toledo, Ohio, the 100-year legacy home of Jeep, of Jeep Wrangler, Jeep Gladiator. And I can hear the cheers coming from Shawn Fain, the President of the United Autoworkers Nationwide; and regionally, Bruce Baumhower, the Local 12 president; Dave Green, the regional leader of Region 2B; and Tony Totty, the president of Local 14.”
House of Representatives22 January 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, freshwater is life. I rise to highlight the importance of the first piece of legislation introduced this year, the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative by our bipartisan Great Lakes champions, the GLRI Act of 2025. This Act was introduced earlier this month alongside my congressional Great Lakes co-chairs David Joyce, Debbie Dingell, and Bill Huizenga. This bill is among our highest priorities for the Great Lakes region.”
House of Representatives21 January 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the patriotic and inspiring service of retired Army Colonel Greg Gadson. He recently addressed students at Central Catholic High School in my northwest Ohio district.”
House of Representatives16 January 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, during this week in Washington, I have heard certain cunning, power-hungry individuals invoke the name of Jesus to blasphemously whitewash their own awful transgressions against the Ten Commandments and the dehumanization of God's precious creatures. I don't expect the coarse subjects of my concern will hear nor even comprehend the Biblical verse I wish to enter into the Record--Matthew 25:31-46.”
House of Representatives15 January 2025Source ↗
“Mr. Speaker, we are all watching the ferocious Palisades, Eaton, Altadena, and Hurst fires expand along California's beautiful Coast. I can recall my many trips there. Surely we all love the Tournament of Roses Parade and the magic of Hollywood. Our hearts go out today and forever to come to the thousands of displaced people, the brave, unrelenting fire and rescue crews, and the public officials trying to bring order in the midst of chaos. Let me share.”
House of Representatives14 January 2025Source ↗