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How has Marcy Kaptur voted on border security?

Matches stated direction. 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.

Marcy Kaptur

The border: what she has voted for

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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.”

Source: Marcy Kaptur for Congress

What the record shows · Mar 10, 2025

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.

Sources: Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives

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.

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