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Fred Upton is a former U.S. Representative from Michigan, serving in the House of Representatives from 1987 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, Upton represented Michigan's 6th congressional district. During his tenure, he was known for his work on issues related to healthcare, energy, and technology. He played a significant role in the passage of the Affordable Care Act's repeal and was involved in various bipartisan efforts, particularly in the areas of public health and environmental policy.
As I met with my boaters and some Coast Guard personnel even this last week in Michigan, I think that this is a very good effort to try and maintain safety along the shores of Lake Michigan. It has come to my attention that the Coast Guard…
This amendment is about foghorns. As I was back in my district, as most of us were these last 10 days, my district is along the shore of Lake Michigan, the Coast Guard currently has a proposal to end the maintenance and in essence stop…
I might just say in response to the gentleman from Indiana, that in these cases where we have seen abuses, I would be delighted, and I am a supporter of this amendment and will speak a little bit later, but I would be delighted to work…
It is time to stop this Federal subsidy of a crop that is both addictive and causes cancer. The passage of this amendment does not stop small tobacco farmers from growing tobacco. It just says we will stop one of the subsidies, one of the…
There are very powerful parts of this institution. One is the Committee on Rules, which meets behind those doors to my left. The Committee on Rules really runs this place in lots of ways. Every bill that comes to this House floor has a…
I would like my friend from Massachusetts to respond to the question that the gentleman from Iowa raised in his opening statement about the Heimlich maneuver. Does the gentleman think that that should be patented and get a bill for that…
I care deeply about the deficit and maintaining a strong national defense. Next year we will be spending more just on the interest servicing the $5.5 trillion national debt than all of the Defense Department budget and foreign aid put…
As I look at my State of Michigan, a few years ago we had a debt of about almost $2 billion, which is a lot for any State. Our Governor and our legislature went after spending, tightened everybody's belts. Today they have cut taxes 23…
We changed the House rules, but we are not living up to them. Maybe we should get the mace out.
We cannot allow those phony assumptions to come into place. That is why, as we make the tough decisions today, Medicaid, Medicare, what size of the tax cut, if any, that ought to be there, all the tough choices, we do not want to go…
One of the things I have said a lot as I have gone around my district and around the State of Michigan and here in Washington too is in this Chamber, sometimes it seems as though we have too many Republicans and too many Democrats, and not…
Reclaiming my time, so whereas we have been denied in the past, this would be an avenue of actually receiving funding to go on the frontline for prevention and deal with the problem of crime that we have in communities both large and small.
This is maximum flexibility. There is no way anybody loses. Everybody gains by this. Local communities get to decide this themselves, rather than our making those decisions for them. Yes, as I heard one of the gentleman over there say, I…
It is time to keep our promise. The deficit today is over $200 billion, and it is as far as the eye can see $200 billion. In fact, by the turn of the century it is not going to be $200 billion, it is not going to be $300 billion. The OMB…
I would like to say before the House that this House loved two of its previous Members, Gerry Ford and Paul Henry. As Jim Ford, the Chaplain of the House, said earlier today, he asked us to pray for character and justice. Character and…
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