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DemocratMarcy Kaptur
U.S. Representative · Ohio
Ohio's 9th district
U.S. Representative from Ohio
0 tracked promises
How they won their seat
Marcy Kaptur won the 2024 U.S. House election in Ohio (District 9) with 48.3% of the vote (181,098 votes).
- Marcy Kaptur · Democrat48.3%181,098
- Derek Merrin · Republican47.6%178,716
- Tom Pruss · Libertarian4.1%15,381
Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.
Inferred legislative agendas
Marcy Kaptur's record has sponsored bills related to energy, agriculture, and support for Ukraine, as evidenced by her sponsorship of bills like the Ratepayer Justice Fund (HR 9700), the Gold Star Spouses Health Care Enhancement Act (HR 3594), and the Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act (HR 9011). Additionally, her committee memberships in appropriations may be related to budgetary matters, as indicated by committee memberships. Focus areas (from the record): Energy · Agriculture · Veterans Affairs · International Relations · Mental Health Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against her legislative activity, making it impossible to assess alignment. What this can't tell you: The politician's specific motives or intentions behind sponsored bills; The effectiveness of the sponsored bills in achieving their intended outcomes; Any unlogged work or advocacy outside of the official record. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Marcy Kaptur has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.
Activity in office
What Marcy Kaptur has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score.
- Votes cast
- 609
- Voted yea
- 301
- Voted nay
- 291
- Bills sponsored
- 448
- Committees
- 5
Roll-call data last updated July 20, 2026 · source: Voteview.
Monthly voting activity
- Yea
- Nay
- Total
Roll-call votes per month — most recent on file. Source: Voteview.
Vote attendance
Share of roll calls participated in — most recent votes on file. Source: Voteview.
Bills sponsored over time
Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.
Independence
How often they break with their party’s majority — neither good nor bad, just the record.
Most recent roll-call votes on file. Source: Voteview.
Bill success rate
Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.
Campaign finance over time
- Small-dollar (unitemized)$116K13%
- Large individual (itemized)$194K22%
- PAC / committee$590K66%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on AppropriationsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on the BudgetOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Appropriations — Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related AgenciesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Appropriations — DefenseOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Ranking Member, House Committee on Appropriations — Energy and Water Development and Related AgenciesOn record since Jan 2025Ranking
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
448 sponsored bills · finance on fileFacts imported directly from official government sources — shown separately from tracked promises and never folded into the Integrity Score. Each entry links to its primary source.
FEC 2026 cycle — raised $3,385,266, spent $741,277, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9700: To establish the Ratepayer Justice Fund and a Federal process to reimburse ratepayers and communities harmed by utility and utility executive misconduct, including corruption, and to hold accountable those responsible for such misconduct, and for other purposes. ↗Jul 15, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9550: Strategic Unmanned Systems Partnership Act ↗Jun 30, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1240: Expressing support for the designation of the week of May 8 through May 17, 2026, as "National American Birding Week". ↗Apr 30, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8219: BLOCK PUTIN Act ↗Apr 9, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1082: Recognizing 250 years of Polish-American friendship and reaffirming the interest of the United States of America in the democracy, sovereignty, prosperity, and security of Poland. ↗Feb 25, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6198: Rear Admiral Alene Duerk Ship Renaming Act of 2025 ↗Nov 20, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5819: Balancing Incentives Act of 2025 ↗Oct 24, 2025
- Sponsored HRES 777: Commending the Council of Europe for its efforts in seeking justice for the people of Ukraine in response to Russian crime of aggression and other international crimes. ↗Sep 30, 2025
- Sponsored HRES 657: Affirming the President's promise not to raise the Social Security and Medicare retirement age. ↗Aug 15, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4230: the Appropriations Compliance and Training Act ↗Jun 27, 2025
- Sponsored HR 3594: Gold Star Spouses Health Care Enhancement Act ↗May 23, 2025
- Sponsored HRES 363: Expressing support for the designation of the week of May 9 through May 18, 2025, as "National American Birding Week". ↗Apr 30, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 448 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 301
- Nay
- 291
- Present
- 6
- Not voting
- 11
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Yea
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR1181Nay
- HR1181Not voting
- HR139Yea
- HRES1423Nay
- HRES1423Nay
- HR8897Yea
- HR3106Yea
- HRES1399Yea
- HCONRES108Yea
- HRES1398Nay
- HRES1398Nay
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Stated positions
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Disclosure
A separate measure from the promise scorecard above. It tracks confirmed cases where this official has acted on or championed an issue that already existed when they ran, but which they did not disclose as a priority in their campaign. Each case meets a high evidence bar — three independent sources — and the score is shown alongside the Integrity Score, never merged into it. How this is measured.
No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.
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