DemocratMarcy Kaptur
U.S. Representative · Ohio
Ohio's 9th district
U.S. Representative from Ohio
4 tracked promises, 4 rated
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 indicates a focus on issues related to community development, environmental protection, and support for veterans and military families. She has sponsored multiple bills aimed at housing rehabilitation (e.g., HR 9700), environmental initiatives (e.g., HR 6821), and veteran support (e.g., HR 3594). Additionally, her committee assignments include budgetary oversight and appropriations related to energy, defense, and agriculture. Focus areas (from the record): Community Development · Environmental Protection · Veterans Affairs · Financial Regulation · International Relations Alignment with declared positions: Mixed. Kaptur's sponsored bills are based on the content of the bills and her stated positions on community development and environmental protection, such as her support for the Restoring Communities Left Behind Act and the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. However, her campaign finance composition shows a significant reliance on PAC contributions, which presents facts about her financial support without implying a contradiction with stated goals of financial regulation and reform. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal the effectiveness of her sponsored bills or their impact on constituents; There is no information on her public statements or specific actions taken outside of sponsored bills and votes; The record does not provide insight into her engagement with constituents or how her campaign finance sources influence her legislative priorities. 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.
Showing 2021. Every tile and chart below reflects this window; some record types (e.g. roll-call votes) only have data for recent years.
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. The tracked-positions tile counts sourced stated positions — claims about what they believe, not conduct — and is likewise never scored.
Roll-call data last updated September 7, 2026 · 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.
Bill success rate
Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.
Campaign finance over time
- Small-dollar (unitemized)$00%
- Large individual (itemized)$00%
- PAC / committee$208K100%
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.
Integrity
Promises kept vs. worked against — weighted breakdown+70 · based on 4 rated promises
- Partial 1
- Championed 3
Teal segments are promises kept; amber and stone segments are promises worked against. The signed score weights each rated promise by significance and evidence confidence. Promise-keeping is shown separately from popularity, finance, disclosure, and stated positions. Methodology is open.
Integrity over time
In office since Jan 2019 · 4 rated promisesThe line steps at each recorded assessment and holds between them; it ends on the current published score.
| Date | Integrity Score |
|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 75 |
| Sep 2026 | 75 |
| Sep 2026 | 68 |
| Sep 2026 | 70 |
| Jan 2027 | 70 (current, held from last rating) |
Promise status over time
How the tracked promise record has evolved.
- Kept4
- Against0
- No opportunity0
- In progress0
Replayed from this official’s sourced assessment history — the bands step only when an assessment is recorded or changed. Based on the most recent roll-call votes on file and the tracked promise assessments; never interpolated.
Topic coverage
4 promises across 4 topicsWhat this record covers — the number of tracked promises per topic. This is coverage, not a verdict; the kept/against shading within each bar mirrors the Integrity breakdown above.
- Environment / Great Lakes1
- Financial Regulation / Wall Street Reform1
- Housing & Community Development1
- Social Security & Medicare1
Evidence & significance
Evidence quality
Strongest source cited per promise.
- Primary (official record)4100%
Significance mix
How weighty the tracked promises are (1 = minor, 5 = defining).
Significance weights each promise in the Integrity Score.
4 tracked promises
“Protect Social Security and Medicare from benefit cuts and privatization.”
“Fight to fully fund the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) to combat harmful algal blooms and invasive species and protect Lake Erie, using her seat on the Appropriations Committee.”
“Reinstate Glass-Steagall protections by enacting her Return to Prudent Banking Act, which would again legally separate commercial banking from investment banking and end the 'too big to fail' status of the largest institutions.”
“Advance the Restoring Communities Left Behind Act to direct federal investment into disinvested urban and rural neighborhoods and rehabilitate housing stock neglected since the 2008 financial crisis.”
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
- 655
- Yea
- 311
- Nay
- 315
- Present
- 6
- Not voting
- 23
Full voting record
655 votes- HR4795Not voting
- HR1501Not voting
- HJRES1Not voting
- HRES1498Not voting
- HR9436Not voting
- HR9436Not voting
- HRES1490Not voting
- HRES1499Not voting
- HRES1499Not voting
- HR6500Not voting
- S32Not voting
- S307Not voting
- HR8884Yea
- HCONRES89Yea
- HCONRES113Nay
- HR7008Yea
- HR7008Yea
- HR8800Nay
- HR8800Yea
- HR8800Nay
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Positions on record
5 positions on recordThe record on this issue — recorded votes this official cast, and sourced claims about what they believe. Each is labelled with which it is, because a vote is what someone did and a statement is what they said. Neither is scored, and neither affects the Integrity Score.
- Housing & Community DevelopmentStated position
Advance the Restoring Communities Left Behind Act to direct federal investment into disinvested urban and rural neighborhoods and rehabilitate housing stock neglected since the 2008 financial crisis.
SourcesKaptur for Congress (campaign)Congress.gov (Library of Congress)View position & sources → - Social Security & MedicareStated position
Protect Social Security and Medicare from benefit cuts and privatization.
SourcesKaptur for Congress (campaign)Office of Rep. Marcy Kaptur (kaptur.house.gov)View position & sources → - Environment / Great LakesStated position
Fight to fully fund the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) to combat harmful algal blooms and invasive species and protect Lake Erie, using her seat on the Appropriations Committee.
SourcesKaptur for Congress (campaign)Office of Rep. Marcy Kaptur (kaptur.house.gov)View position & sources → - Financial Regulation / Wall Street ReformStated position
Reinstate Glass-Steagall protections by enacting her Return to Prudent Banking Act, which would again legally separate commercial banking from investment banking and end the 'too big to fail' status of the largest institutions.
SourcesKaptur for Congress (campaign)Congress.gov (Library of Congress)Office of Rep. Marcy Kaptur (kaptur.house.gov)View position & sources → - Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyRecorded vote
On record voting NO on Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, an amendment to prohibit warrantless searches of United States persons' communications in the FISA Section 702 database, with exceptions for imminent threats to life or bodily harm, consent searches, and known cybersecurity threat signatures. The amendment failed on a 212 to 212 tie.
SourcesHouse Roll Call Vote 114, 118th Congress, 2nd Session: On Agreeing to the Amendment, Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act. Failed by recorded vote, 212 ayes to 212 noes, April 12, 2024.View position & sources →
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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