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 sits on the Appropriations Committee, where she is the Ranking Minority Member of the Subcommittee on Energy and Water. The following is from the March 15, 2013, House floor debate on H.R. 803, the Supporting Knowledge and Investing in Lifelong Skills (SKILLS) Act. I rise in opposition to H.R. 803,…