Honorable Marcy Kaptur
United States Representative, Ohio, Democrat
Representative Kaptur, of the Ninth District of Ohio, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representative in 1982. She was an Assistant Director for Urban Affairs at the White House from 1977 to 1980 and Deputy Secretary of the National Consumer Cooperative Bank from 1980 to 1981. She serves on the Appropriations Committee and is the senior Democratic woman in the House. The following is from the July 19, 2001, House floor debate on H.R. 7, the Community Solutions Act.Regarding the so-called faith-based initiative, if I were convinced that this initiative posed no threat to separation of church and…
