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U.S. Representative

Marcy Kaptur

Democrat - Ohio

Marcy Kaptur is the longest-serving woman in the history of the U.S House of Representatives and is the first female Chair of the House’s Energy and Water Appropriations Committee. During her time in Congress, Kaptur has dedicated herself to environmental protection by securing funding from the EPA to clean up waste sites and establish the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. A strong supporter of Middle East peace, she directed the first surplus farm commodities in 1999 to support the peace process in Lebanon, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority.

BIOGRAPHY  

PARTY: Democrat

ELECTED: 1982

EDUCATION: University of Wisconsin–Madison; University of Michigan; Massachusetts Institute of Technology

OCCUPATION: Urban policy adviser; city and regional planner

BORN: 6/17/46

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“Schools, shopping malls, grocery stores, and Independence Day parades shouldn't be scenes of mass carnage and bloodshed.”

- Rep. Marcy Kaptur

POLITICAL CAREER


  • Co-founder of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus

  • Urban policy adviser to President Jimmy Carter


COMMITTEES SERVED ON


  • House Committee on Appropriations

  • House Committee on the Budget

INTERESTING FACTS

  • The longest-serving woman in the history of the U.S. House of Representatives

  • Refuses to accept Congressional pay raises and donates them to offset the federal deficit and charitable causes in her home community

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