Marcy Kaptur supported bipartisan legislation to provide health care to 11 million children in modest-income families. The Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Reauthorization Act, similar to legislation that President Bush vetoed twice in the 110th Congress, would cut the number of uninsured children in Ohio by more than half.
U.S. Representative Marcy Kaptur supports two bills, the Paycheck Fairness Act and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, that would strengthen worker rights and eradicate discriminatory pay policies. The House passed both meausres, on largely party-line votes, during the first week of business for the 111th Congress.
Representative Marcy Kaptur, the senior woman in the House, served as one of four teller clerks in the vote for Speaker of the House as the 111th Congress was convened.
The Inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the
United States on January 20, 2009 is rapidly approaching.The pageantry and historic significance of a presidential inauguration is one of the truly inspiring rituals of our democratic republic as we celebrate the transition of power in a peaceful manner.