Rep. Marcy Kaptur
Representative for Ohio’s 9th District
pronounced MAHR-see // KAP-ter
![Photo of Rep. Marcy Kaptur [D-OH9]](/https/www.govtrack.us/static/legislator-photos/400211-200px.jpeg)
Earmarks
Kaptur proposed $34 million in earmarks for fiscal year 2024, including:
- $4 million to East Toledo Family Center for “East Toledo Family Center - Community Center Expansion”
- $3.7 million to University of Toledo for “ARS Greenhouse Research Facility on Controlled Environment Agriculture; Toledo, OH”
- $3.2 million to Board of Ottawa County Commissioners for “Portage-Catawba Island Wastewater Infrastructure, Ottawa County, Ohio”
View all requests and justifications on Kaptur’s website »
View analysis and download spreadsheet from Demand Progress Education Fund »
These are earmark requests which may or may not survive the legislative process to becoming law. Most representatives from both parties requested earmarks for fiscal year 2024. Across representatives who requested earmarks, the median total amount requested for this fiscal year was $39 million.
Earmarks are federal expenditures, tax benefits, or tariff benefits requested by a legislator for a specific entity. Rather than being distributed through a formula or competitive process administered by the executive branch, earmarks may direct spending where it is most needed for the legislator's district. All earmark requests in the House of Representatives are published online for the public to review. We don’t have earmark requests for senators. The fiscal year begins on October 1 of the prior calendar year. Source: Appropriations.house.gov. Background: Earmark Disclosure Rules in the House
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Kaptur is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).
The chart is based on the bills Kaptur has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Aug 16, 2024. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Marcy Kaptur sits on the following committees:
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House Committee on Appropriations
- Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies subcommittee Ranking Member
Enacted Legislation
Kaptur was the primary sponsor of 11 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- H.R. 1057 (117th): Greatest Generation Commemorative Coin Act
- H.R. 8255 (117th): Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023
- H.R. 4549 (117th): Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2022
- H.R. 4470 (116th): To rename the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation.
- H.R. 4790 (116th): Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility Act
- H.R. 2960 (116th): Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020
- H.R. 1271 (116th): Vet HP Act
Does 11 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.
We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Kaptur sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
International Affairs (26%) Health (15%) Agriculture and Food (12%) Commerce (12%) Economics and Public Finance (9%) Housing and Community Development (9%) Environmental Protection (9%) Finance and Financial Sector (9%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Kaptur recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 9011: Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2024
- H.Res. 1229: Supporting the designation of May 15, 2024, as “National Senior Fraud Awareness Day” …
- H.Res. 1198: Commemorating the 105th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Poland and the United States.
- H.R. 8132: Balancing Incentives Act of 2024
- H.Res. 1014: Commemorating the heroic sacrifices of the Ukrainian people 2 years after Russia’s illegal …
- H.R. 6956: Opioid Settlement Accountability Act
- H.R. 6821: Healthy Farms Healthy Watersheds Act of 2023
View All » | View Cosponsors »
Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 1983 to Jul 2024, Kaptur missed 1,213 of 24,817 roll call votes, which is 4.9%. This is much worse than the median of 2.1% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills