By Reps. Dave Camp, John Kline, Paul Ryan, Lamar Smith, and Fred Upton Wednesday's vote to repeal the unpopular health care law was, to paraphrase Winston Churchill, the end of the beginning of our push to make quality health care more affordable and accessible for all Americans. Full repeal of the Democrats' partisan health care law is critical to advancing fiscally responsible, patient-centered reforms that actually lower health care costs. Repeal serves two purposes. First, it is crucial to g... Read more

By Rep. Fred Upton and Tim Phillips - On Jan. 2, the Environmental Protection Agency will officially begin regulating the emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. This move represents an unconstitutional power grab that will kill millions of jobs -- unless Congress steps in. This mess began in April 2007, with the Supreme Court's decision in Massachusetts v. EPA. The court instructed the agency to determine whether greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide pose (or potentially pose) a d... Read more

By Rep. Fred Upton (MI-06) and Spencer Abraham - When the new Congress convenes, the central questions before it, and between Capitol Hill and the White House will be how to improve America’s economy and maintain U.S. national security. The answers to both questions are, in no small measure, the same: We need to strengthen our energy security. Without an affordable, sufficient energy supply, our economy cannot make the forward strides required to put the recession behind us. America’s economy ha... Read more

By Rep. Fred Upton (MI) and Rep. Joe Pitts (PA) - As House Republicans prepare to assume the majority, we must also prepare to promote a strong agenda that encourages job growth and shrinks government. We can think of no better way to begin than by immediately repealing and replacing the Democrats’ massive job-killing healthcare takeover. As part of this process, the Energy and Commerce Committee will embark on a comprehensive oversight and legislative strategy to uncover the many problems of th... Read more

By Republican Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee - With a new congressional session comes a recycling of the old proposal to raid the jurisdiction of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. This seems a bizarre moment to advance the idea that a group, which didn’t stand up to the Barack Obama-Nancy Pelosi axis on its radical energy and environmental initiatives, should now take over the work of the committee that did. (Rep. Doc Hastings’s Opinion piece, “One Energy Panel Better ... Read more

By Rep. Fred Upton (MI-06) - The voters have spoken, and they want a new Washington. Congressional Republicans have heard that message loud and clear: The Obama/Pelosi experiment has failed, and the American people want an end to their job-killing policies. Republicans understand the people’s message, and we are ready to get to work. The votes of the Congress under Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) along with President Barack Obama’s unchecked regulations have forced businesses to ship jobs overse... Read more

By Rep. Fred Upton (MI-06) and Rep. Darrell Issa (CA-49) In his January 1989 farewell address to the nation, President Reagan warned, "Man is not free unless government is limited. ... There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts." Earlier this month, we saw countless Americans heed Mr. Reagan's warning, turning out in droves to cast their vote in defense of liberty. The new majority in Congress certainly has ... Read more

Rep. Fred Upton (MI-06) - Voters have spoken. The failed policies of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and President Obama have been soundly rejected. Republicans have a clear mandate to cut the size of government, reduce spending and reverse costly job-killing regulations. The new Republican majority will be different -- we will listen. Pelosi never listened to the American people and she never lived up to her promises. Under the leadership of incoming Speaker John Boehner, Republicans will... Read more

Rep. Fred Upton (MI-06) - The voters have spoken. The failed job-killing policies of Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama have been soundly rejected. We have a clear mandate to cut the size of government, reduce spending and reverse costly job-killing regulations. The new Republican majority will be different — we will listen. Pelosi never listened to the American people and she never lived up to her promises. We will do both. This change will be evident from day one at the Energy and Commerce Committe... Read more

By Grover Norquist and Rep. Fred Upton (MI-06) The federal budget deficits reported in 2009 and 2010 were the highest on record since 1945, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, approximately $1.4 trillion and $1.3 trillion, respectively. (That’s trillion with a capital T.) Under the Democrats’ one-party reign the last two years, the size of government has exploded and the United States has added an unprecedented $2.7 trillion to the national debt, amounting to nearly $5 bil... Read more