Energy, infrastructure and housing

Evidence timeline

What the record shows.

1. Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

   official action

   Marcy Kaptur: Matches stated direction

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

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

2. Reviewed Sep 20, 2026

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   Derek Merrin: record does not settle this

   Neither of his two bills passed; the law section instead covers other tax rules. These records do not settle whether his subdivided-land provision entered a larger bill by amendment.

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   His campaign says that after a five-year push he passed the Affordable Homebuilding and Housing Act, blocking property tax increases on subdivided lots until the home is built or the lot sold. He filed for it twice and neither bill passed. H.B. 371 of the 132nd General Assembly, "Exempt increased value of subdivided land until building starts", was reported by the Ways and Means Committee and went no further; H.B. 149 of the 133rd, "Enact Affordable Homebuilding and Housing Act", never left introduction. Revised Code section 5709.51, the section his bill would have created, instead carries rules on extending tax-increment exemptions and does not mention subdivided land. Why there is no verdict: The outcome cannot be located in the record at all, which is not the same as showing the claim to be wrong. Searching the complete bill lists of the 133rd, 134th, 135th and 136th General Assemblies for a short title naming homebuilding, subdivided land, platting, residential development or a housing act returns his own unpassed bill and nothing else. What no sponsorship or title search can rule out is a provision folded into a budget without a name of its own, which is how several of his other claims did reach law. So the record neither shows this happening nor shows that it did not. Limit: Ohio's bill lists and the Revised Code settle who sponsored what and which act amended a section. Neither shows language added by amendment inside a larger bill, which is the one route this claim could have taken.

3. Occurred Feb 6, 2023

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   Marcy Kaptur: Matches stated record claim

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