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Marcy Kaptur

Current U.S. representative for Ohio's 9th Congressional District. Campaign affiliation: Democratic.

Voter guide

Background, stated goals, record, and money

Goals come from the campaign's own platform. Record lines are official actions.

How this guide is built

Background comes from official records, and from the campaign's own biography where the bullet says so; goals are summarized from the campaign's own platform and stay attributed; the record lines are official actions with the government source attached; money is shown as filed, with the filings it covers in the note under the table, and is not evidence of why any position was taken.

Marcy Kaptur

Background

  • The sitting member for Ohio's ninth district; Congress.gov records twenty-two terms for her, the first beginning in 1983.
  • Her congressional office says she serves as the first woman to be Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development.

What they say they want to do

  • Bring jobs home and end tax breaks for companies that move them overseas, with tariffs protecting Ohio-based factories.
  • Secure borders and legal immigration, which her campaign ties to votes for border security and to the 2024 Senate immigration plan.
  • An all-of-the-above energy policy, weatherization that lowers home energy costs, and more affordable housing.
  • No national abortion ban, and none without exceptions for rape, incest or the life of the mother.
  • Support for small farmers and for policies that create economic opportunity in farming communities.

What the official record shows

  • Introduced the Restoring Communities Left Behind Act as H.R. 816 of the 117th Congress; it was referred to the Committee on Financial Services and went no further.
  • Introduced the same Act again as H.R. 837 of the 118th Congress, with the same outcome.
  • Voted Yea on passage of the HALT Fentanyl Act as H.R. 27.
  • Voted Yea on passage of the Subterranean Border Defense Act and the Emerging Innovative Border Technologies Act.
  • Voted Yea on passage of the Stop Chinese Fentanyl Act of 2025.

Campaign money from other committees, by type

Transfers and contributions from joint fundraising committees 6 committees$870,878
Corporation PACs 66 committees$233,500
Leadership PACs 64 committees$228,500
Labor Organization PACs 35 committees$219,000
Trade Association PACs 29 committees$103,500
PAC - Qualified 33 committees$99,000
House 32 committees$62,500
Membership Organization PACs 16 committees$57,750
Hybrid PAC (with Non-Contribution Account) - Qualified 10 committees$42,500
Committees the FEC records no type for 15 committees$22,300
Cooperative PACs 5 committees$14,500
Hybrid PAC (with Non-Contribution Account) - Nonqualified 3 committees$13,000
PAC - Nonqualified 3 committees$9,000
Party - Qualified 1 committee$8,175
Corporation w/o capital stock PACs 3 committees$6,500
Senate 1 committee$2,000

Source: Federal Election Commission

Money from political committees in the 2025-26 cycle, through June 30, 2026 (FEC lines 11B, 11C and 12). The rows sum to 1,992,602.80 dollars. Donations from individuals, including through ActBlue or WinRed, are not counted here, except as passed through joint fundraising committees.

Words and record

What they say, and what the record shows

Each card gets one label from a fixed list and states its own limit.

Matches stated record claim

What they say

Her campaign says she introduced the Restoring Communities Left Behind Act to invest in urban and rural communities that have seen disinvestment.

What the record shows ·

She sponsored it in 2021 and again in 2023, and both bills went to the Financial Services Committee and no further.

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What they say

Her campaign says she introduced the Restoring Communities Left Behind Act to invest in urban and rural communities that have seen disinvestment.

“She has introduced the Restoring Communities Left Behind Act to invest in both urban and rural communities that have seen disinvestment over the years.”

What the record shows ·

Congress.gov records her as the sponsor of the Restoring Communities Left Behind Act twice: H.R. 816 of the 117th Congress, introduced February 4, 2021, and H.R. 837 of the 118th, introduced February 6, 2023. Both were referred to the House Committee on Financial Services and neither went further.

Limit: The claim is that she introduced it, and she did, twice. Neither bill left committee, so nothing here shows the investment it describes reaching anyone.

Matches stated direction

What they say

Her campaign describes her as chair of the Energy and Water subcommittee on Appropriations.

What the record shows

She is the subcommittee's ranking member, its top Democrat, and the chair this Congress is Rep. Chuck Fleischmann.

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Quotes, full record and limits

What they say

Her campaign describes her as chair of the Energy and Water subcommittee on Appropriations.

“As chair of the Energy and Water subcommittee on Appropriations, Marcy believes we need an “all of the above” energy policy.”

What the record shows

The House Appropriations Committee's own roster for the 119th Congress names Chuck Fleischmann as chairman of the Energy and Water Development subcommittee. Her own House office page says that today she serves as the first woman to be Ranking Member of that subcommittee, which is the minority counterpart to the chair and not the same post.

Limit: She is the subcommittee's ranking member, its top Democrat. The chair is Rep. Chuck Fleischmann.

Matches stated record claim

What they say

Her campaign says she has voted to lock up drug traffickers bringing fentanyl into her communities.

What the record shows ·

She voted for the HALT Fentanyl Act twice and the Stop Chinese Fentanyl Act in 2025, and all three passed the House.

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Quotes, full record and limits

What they say

Her campaign says she has voted to lock up drug traffickers bringing fentanyl into her communities.

“She’s voted to lock up drug traffickers bringing fentanyl into our communities.”

What the record shows ·

The House Clerk records her voting Yea three times in the 119th Congress on measures of that kind: the HALT Fentanyl Act as H.R. 27 on February 6, 2025 (Roll Call 33), the same Act as S. 331 on June 12, 2025 (Roll Call 166), and the Stop Chinese Fentanyl Act of 2025 on September 2, 2025 (Roll Call 220). All three passed the House.

Limit: Three recorded votes in the current Congress, not a score of her whole record on drug policy, and the check does not cover earlier Congresses. What a scheduling or penalty bill does in practice is not something a roll call shows.

Matches stated direction

What they say

Her campaign says she has voted to improve and expand border security, to hire more than ten thousand border agents, and to allow a military presence at the border if needed.

What the record shows ·

She voted for both border security bills that got a recorded vote in 2025, and no vote this Congress was found on hiring 10,000 agents or a military presence at the border.

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Quotes, full record and limits

What they say

Her campaign says she has voted to improve and expand border security, to hire more than ten thousand border agents, and to allow a military presence at the border if needed.

“She has voted to improve and expand border security, to hire more than 10,000 border agents, and to enable military presence at the border if needed.”

What the record shows ·

Two border-security measures reached a recorded vote in the 119th Congress and she voted Yea on both, on March 10, 2025: the Subterranean Border Defense Act (Roll Call 63) and the Emerging Innovative Border Technologies Act (Roll Call 65). Both passed. No vote in this Congress was found on hiring ten thousand border agents or on a military presence at the border.

Limit: The claim bundles three things and the current Congress's record carries the first. The other two were not located in it, and this check covered the 119th Congress only — she has served since 1983, so a vote from an earlier Congress would not appear here and is not ruled out.

Issues in this record

Follow the evidence by issue.

Costs and the economyTaxes and propertyImmigration and the borderEnergy, infrastructure and housingReproductive rights

Evidence timeline

Dated records, with sources attached.

  1. race event

    Official candidate filings reviewed

    The Erie County Board of Elections filing list for the November 3 general election showed both printed candidates when The Stated Record checked it on September 2, 2026. A write-in candidate is listed separately by the election authority.

  2. finance

    FEC filing snapshot

    July Quarterly 2026, principal campaign committee KAPTUR FOR CONGRESS.

  3. race event

    Kaptur's first term begins

    Congress.gov records twenty-two terms for Marcy Kaptur in Ohio's ninth district, the first beginning in 1983.

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Sources14 source records

How we use sources

  1. Marcy Kaptur, member recordhttps://api.congress.gov/v3/member/K000009

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    Used for her current office, district, party and the number of terms recorded. Congress.gov is the Library of Congress's official legislative record.

    official office record

    For: Current role; Background, goals, record and campaign money; Kaptur's first term begins

  2. About Marcy Kapturhttps://kaptur.house.gov/about

    U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    Her own congressional office page. Used for the subcommittee post it states she currently holds.

    official office record

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Appropriations: her role on the Energy and Water subcommittee

  3. Marcy's Prioritieshttps://marcykaptur.com/priorities/

    Marcy Kaptur for Congress · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts.

    candidate statement

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Housing: the Restoring Communities Left Behind Act; Appropriations: her role on the Energy and Water subcommittee; Drugs: fentanyl trafficking penalties; The border: what she has voted for

  4. H.R. 816, Restoring Communities Left Behind Act, 117th Congresshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/816

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    Sponsorship, introduction date and the referral that ended it.

    official legislative record

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Housing: the Restoring Communities Left Behind Act

  5. H.R. 837, Restoring Communities Left Behind Act, 118th Congresshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/837

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    Sponsorship, introduction date and the referral that ended it.

    official legislative record

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Housing: the Restoring Communities Left Behind Act

  6. Roll Call 33, H.R. 27, HALT Fentanyl Acthttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202533

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    Recorded vote of February 6, 2025, read through the Congress.gov house-vote member list.

    official legislative record

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Drugs: fentanyl trafficking penalties

  7. Roll Call 63, H.R. 495, Subterranean Border Defense Acthttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202563

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    Recorded vote of March 10, 2025, read through the Congress.gov house-vote member list.

    official legislative record

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; The border: what she has voted for

  8. Roll Call 65, H.R. 993, Emerging Innovative Border Technologies Acthttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202565

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    Recorded vote of March 10, 2025, read through the Congress.gov house-vote member list.

    official legislative record

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; The border: what she has voted for

  9. Roll Call 220, H.R. 747, Stop Chinese Fentanyl Act of 2025https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025220

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    Recorded vote of September 2, 2025, read through the Congress.gov house-vote member list.

    official legislative record

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money; Drugs: fentanyl trafficking penalties

  10. KAPTUR FOR CONGRESS, itemized receipts from political committeeshttps://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?committee_id=C00154625&two_year_transaction_period=2026&is_individual=false

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    Read from OpenFEC on 2026-09-21: all 3,992 itemized non-individual rows the FEC reports for the cycle, of which 3,791 carry a contributing-committee identifier and are grouped in the table. A first pass stopped at 3,000 rows and would have understated the table by about 976,000 dollars; the collector now compares what it read against the FEC's own count and refuses a short read. No individual contributor row was read.

    fec filing

    For: Background, goals, record and campaign money

  11. Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies (119th Congress)https://appropriations.house.gov/subcommittees/energy-and-water-development-and-related-agencies-119th-congress

    House Committee on Appropriations · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    The committee's own subcommittee page for the current Congress, which names its chairman.

    official office record

    For: Appropriations: her role on the Energy and Water subcommittee

  12. Roll Call 166, S. 331, HALT Fentanyl Acthttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025166

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    Recorded vote of June 12, 2025, read through the Congress.gov house-vote member list.

    official legislative record

    For: Drugs: fentanyl trafficking penalties

  13. Election candidate filings (document)

    Erie County, Ohio Board of Elections · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    Official printed-candidate filing list for the November 3, 2026 general election, reviewed September 2, 2026. Ohio's Secretary of State site refuses automated readers, so a county board's published filing list is used for the field.

    official election record

    For: Official candidate filings reviewed

  14. KAPTUR FOR CONGRESS, July Quarterly 2026 (document)

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

    Principal campaign committee only, covering April 16 to June 30, 2026, read from OpenFEC on September 20, 2026 as the most recent report not superseded by an amendment.

    fec filing

    For: FEC filing snapshot