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Is Marcy Kaptur chair of the Energy and Water appropriations subcommittee?

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

Marcy Kaptur

Appropriations: her role on the Energy and Water subcommittee

Matches stated direction

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.”

Source: Marcy Kaptur for Congress

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.

Sources: House Committee on Appropriations, U.S. House of Representatives

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

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