Who is Fred Upton
Frederick Stephen Upton (born April 23, 1953) is an American politician serving as a U.S. representative from Michigan since 1987, representing the state's 6th congressional district since 1993. He is a member of the Republican Party. His district, numbered as the 4th district from 1987 to 1993, is based in Kalamazoo and stretches along the Michigan-Indiana border in the southwestern part of the state.A former chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, Upton has played a major role in shaping post-Obamacare health care legislation. He is the only U.S. representative in history to vote to impeach two presidents; he voted for the impeachment of Bill Clinton in 1998 and the second impeachment of Donald Trump in 2021, as one of ten Republicans who voted to impeach Trump. Afte...
Read Full Biography of Fred Upton
Fred Upton Poems
Top 10 most used topics by Fred Upton
Fred Upton Quotes
- Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable.
- Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy.
- I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.
- Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate they didn't want to change the health care they had they didn't want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship.
- Americans want and deserve a broad array of health insurance choices so they can identify those that best fit their own individual or family needs. These choices expand when we allow free enterprise to foster innovation, not smother it with taxes and one-size fits all ideology.
Comments about Fred Upton
Cornellsun: former representatives fred upton (r-mich.) and max rose (d-n.y.) stressed civility, centrism and consensus at a tuesday event, “searching for the center,” as part of the brooks school of public policy’s learning and leading through difference initiative.Richreps: fred upton (r-mich) had an approximate net worth of $16,330,586 in 2009.
Cornellbpp: max rose (d) and fred upton (r) sat across the aisle in congress. they're side by side at 5pm tonight in kaufmann auditorium/goldwin smith hall, leading a conversation about how we can civilly discuss the criminal case against pres. trump & other issues:
Clairewayner: just stood next to former rep. fred upton on the o’hare ats train and was so tempted to ask about energy policy…
Read All Comments
