THE HONORABLE MARCY KAPTUR
Member of Congress
Ohio's Ninth District

Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur was sworn into her sixth term of office
on January 5, 1993. First elected to the Congress in 1982, she is
one of only 54 women Members of the 535 Members of the 103rd Congress.

In 1990, Congresswoman Kaptur was elected by her colleagues to serve
on the prestigious House Appropriations Committee. As a member of the
Committee, Congresswoman Kaptur has attempted to reform programs
to meet the needs of today while reducing the budget deficit. In
the 103rd Congress, Congresswoman Kaptur will serve on the key
subcommittees that will allow her to play a key role in shaping our
nation's farm policy as well as its urban programs. The
Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Housing and Urban
Development, and the Environmental Protection Agency, the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation
and the District of Columbia.

The House Appropriations Committee is an exclusive committee of the
House; therefore, members may serve on only that committee. Before
her election to the Appropriations Ommittee. Congresswoman Kaptur
was a member of the Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs Committee
where she was a strong advocate on behalf of our nation's financial
independence and against America's growing dependence on borrowing
from foreign creditors. Throughout her career she has served on the 
committees serving our nation's veterans. She has chaired a
Veterans Subcommittee where she led the fight for the first major
revision of the VA Home Loan Guaranty program in 40 years, which
saved the taxpayers over $114 million over a three year period and
at the same time enabled more veterans to own homes.

In addition to her Appropriations Committee assignment,
Congresswoman Kaptur represents the interests of Ohio's Ninth
District and the Region through her work on several outside caucuses
and coalitions. In 1993, she was elected bu her colleagues to co-chair
the Northeast/Midwest Coalition -- a bipartisan group of over
100 Members of Congress fighting for growth in the region,
improvements to Great Lakes shipping, reducing utility costs, 
cleaning up the environment and reshaping the proposed trade
agreement with Mexico and Canada to assure it will benefit the U.S.,
our workers and our industries.

Due to her reputaion within the Congress as an expert on
international trade, COngresswoman Kaptur has served as co-chair of
the COngressional Competitiveness Caucus since 1988. The Caucus, a
bipartisan group of Members from the House and Senate, provides a
forum for Members of Congress and leaders from business, labor, and
academia on crucial issues affecting jobs in America and the nation's
place in the worls economy. She has spearheaded efforts to focus national
attention on industries critical to America's future such as
the auto and autoparts, semiconductor, aerospace and machine
tool industries.

In 1993, Kaptur was elected Vice-Chair and Treasurer of the Congressional 
Auto Caucus and she serves as co-chair of the related
House Auto Parts Task Force. She has successfully led the battle in
Congress to elevate auot parts as a top priority in trade talks
between the US and Japan since automotive trade comprises the
largest segment of the US tade deficit with Japan.

Congresswoman Kaptur is also the founder and co-chair of the Congressional
Fair Trade Caucus. She is a vigilant defender of the jobs of US workers and
has been a leading voice in the Congress to ensure that any trade agreement
is structured in a way to better the lives of US citizens and citizens in 
other nations. She formed the Caucus in 1991 after the fight she led to stop
fast-track approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement narrowly
lost in the House.

Congresswoman Kaptur's efforts to impose tough lobbying restrictions
on top-level federal officials became one of the central issues
during the 1992 Presidential campaign. She has fought to elevate
this issues to the top of the national agenda since 1985. After a four-year
battle, in 1989 Congresswoman Kaptur was successful in gaining passage
of a one-year ban against this practice. Although she had sought a four-year
ban on such activity, she has vowed to push forward to prevent top-level
government officials from cashing-in on their experience. Congresswoman
Kaptur has also introduced comprehensive legislation entitled the 
"Professional Trade Service Corps" which would better train and prepare our
trade negotiators while extending for eight years the prohibition against
lobbying after service to one's nation.

Congresswoman Kaptur has sponsored legislation in many other areas
affecting the nation and her district including: the establishment
of the National Center for Tooling and Precision Components in
Northwest Ohio to restore our nation's global preeminence in this
key US technology; creation of an eight-county Agricultural
Business Enhancement Center to help farmers create higher valued
products to increase their income; new clean coal tachnologies and
ethanol production to provide new sources of energy for the future;
expansion of GI Education benefits; extension of Agent Orange health
protection for veterans; defense cost-sharing by Japan and our other
Allies; elimination of money laundering by banks of illicit drug
money; establishment of childhood development programs in public
housing; to creation of a World War II Memorial in the nation's capital;
improvements to Lake Erie and all the Great Lakes including shoreline
protection and clean water.

She also serves as Treasurer of the bi=partisan Congressional Caucus
on Women's Issues.

As a result of her work in several areas, Congresswoman Kaptur has
been invited to address a variety of gatherings including: the
Veterans of Foreign Wars, the National Press Club, multi-employer
pension plan managers at the International Foundation of Employee
Benefit Plans Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana; the commencement
address in International Business and Economics at the University of
California, Berkeley; the International Meeting of the AFL-CIO; the
national convention of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill;
as well as a host of other engagements within her District. She was
featured on CBS' "60 Minutes" amd ABC's "20/20" as a result of her work
to curb the power of lobbyists who leave the employment of the 
US government and then go directly to work on behalf of foreign clients
to influence the policies of the US government. She has also been featured 
for comment on the proposed North American Free Trade Agreement on CNN and 
NBC News.

Dedicated to the principle that fiscal responsibilty begins in
"one's own backyard," Congresswoman Kaptur has consistently balanced
her own office account. Through careful management, each year she
has served in office, she has saved thousands of dollars in office
and personnel expenses. She refused to accpet recent Congressional
pay raises and has returned a portion of them to the government to help
offset the federal deficit. She donates the remainder of those
pay raises to charitable causes in her District, returning over
$34,000.00 in after tax dollars since 1989.

Congresswoman Kaptur also served as Honorary Chair of the anti-drug
abuse campaign in Lucas County, C.A.R.E.S. In early 1989,
Congresswoman Kaptur participated in the formation of a new local
beighborhood improvement corporation, an effort she had encouraged
for several years with the cooperation of the business community and
neighborhood organizations. This provate, not-for-profit Local
Initiative Support Corporation will provide more than $1 million in
private loans and tachnical assistance to neighborhood organizations
in the greater Toledo area seeking to upgrade their homes and neighborhoods,
and improve opportunities for small business and industry.

As a participant in the House COmmittee on Small Business' visit to Eastern 
and Central Europe in the midst of the fall of Communism
there, COngresswoman Kaptru initiated efforts to link Northwest Ohio
with emerging democracies in the region through Sister City
relationships. With the help of hundreds of Northwest Ohioans, her
efforts have brought about academic, cultural, governmental and economic
exchanges between the Greater Toledo area and the cities of Poznan, Poland
and Szeged, Hungary. She serves as an Honorary Chair of the Toledo Sister
Cities International.

Marcy Kaptur is a life-long resident of Toledo, Ohio, a member of
Little flower Roman Catholic Church, and a graduate of St. Ursula
Academy. In 1968, Representative Kaptur earned a Bachelor of Arts
Degree in history from the University of Wisconsin. She received
her Masters' Degree in urban planning from the University of Michigan.
She practiced as an urban planner for 15 years prior to 
Seeking office and was a Doctoral candidate at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology in urban studies, specializing in development finance. She 
served in the White House as an urban advisor to the President of the United
States from 1977 through 1979 and as the first Deputy Director of the National
Cooperative Consumer Bank.