Marcy Kaptur

Lake Erie advocates are hoping a proposed U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project in Illinois will block invasive carp species from entering the Great Lakes — but they’re watching to see how officials will pay for it. Representatives of several Great Lakes and environmental groups met Sept. 4 in Perry to talk with Rep. Dave Joyce (R-Ohio) about protecting the lake.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a measure Wednesday to help stabilize multiemployer pensions, which would affect 60,000 Ohio workers. Now the…

Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), who chairs a U.S. House energy and water subcommittee, says that Ohio’s new energy bill is a step in the wrong direction.On…

We're still almost two years away from the time when the numbers geeks hired by the political parties in Ohio put on their green eyeshades and load their…

A federal court has ruled that Ohio's congressional map is an "unconstitutional partisan gerrymander" and must be redrawn before the 2020 election.In…

Ohio Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur says she will vote to defeat the new North American Free Trade Agreement worked out by the Trump Administration last fall. On Friday the Democrat said one of the reasons she is opposed to the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) is an expansion of drug company exclusivity. “You weren’t expecting that the pharmaceutical issue would be hidden in a trade bill but it is,” said Kaptur.

The longest-serving woman in U.S. House history blamed partisan gerrymandering on Wednesday for making "a mess" of Congress and harming the nation.Rep.…

Republican Troy Balderson of Ohio was sworn in as the newest member of Congress on Wednesday afternoon.Balderson, 56, defeated Democrat Danny O'Connor…

Ohio's Democratic congressional delegation wants Gov. John Kasich to rescind a proposal for imposing new work requirements on Medicaid expansion…

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency has decided to include Western Lake Erie in a list of impaired waters, due to the harmful algae blooms that…