By Rep. Fred Upton (MI-06) - Some in Washington insist that our nation’s environmental concerns are at odds with our economic ones. They say job protection must be sacrificed for clean air and water, or healthy economic growth cannot exist with healthy families and communities. In fact, if our goal is to do right by the planet, we ought to keep energy production and manufacturing here in America by striking an appropriate regulatory balance. If environmental rules end up chasing jobs overseas to... Read more

The Obama Administration continues to ignore court decisions on Internet regulation and use agencies like the Federal Communications Commission to circumvent Congress. We're happy to see House Republicans vote to overrule this behavior. Two days before Christmas, the FCC issued "net neutrality" rules on a partisan 3-2 vote that restrict how Internet service providers like Comcast and Verizon can manage their network traffic and serve customers. The regulation is a favorite of big Web content com... Read more

Congressman Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph) made the following statement in response to an agreement reached this evening by House Republicans and the White House to avoid a shutdown of the government while also enacting historic cuts in federal spending. Final details to cut federal spending some $78.5 billion below the President’s 2011 budget proposal will continue to be negotiated between the House and Senate through April 14th. Tonight, the Congress passed a short-term resolution that will keep th... Read more

The U.S. House of Representatives today passed a bipartisan Resolution of Disapproval coauthored by Congressman Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, to reverse the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) “network neutrality” rules. The FCC approved its new Internet regulations this past December after a federal court ruled the agency lacked such regulatory authority. The House resolution (H.J.Res.37) comes under the Congressional Review Act, which allo... Read more

By Rep. Fred Upton (MI-06) - The Internet’s innovation and success is unmatched and since its inception, it has thrived without government interference. The Federal Communications Commission nonetheless ruled in December to impose Internet regulations, even though Congress has never authorized it to do so. There is also no crisis warranting such intervention. The Energy and Commerce Committee has repeatedly asked the FCC to provide an economic and market analysis to demonstrate its rules are war... Read more

The U.S. House of Representatives today passed bipartisan legislation coauthored by Congressman Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which would protect jobs and keep gas and energy prices low by preventing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating the emission of greenhouse gases to address climate change. H.R. 910, the Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011, passed the House this afternoon by a vote of 255 - 172. The bill now moves to the S... Read more

The Energy Tax Prevention Act, H.R. 910, is designed to stop the EPA from using the Clean Air Act to unilaterally impose greenhouse gas regulations to address climate change. Unless Congress intervenes, the EPA’s efforts to impose a cap-and-trade agenda threaten to drive gas prices even higher, increase utility rates, send manufacturing jobs overseas, and hamstring our economic recovery. Read Upton’s remarks online HERE. View video HERE. Read more

Congressman Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph) today praised Senate passage of House legislation that repeals the harmful 1099 tax reporting requirement from the healthcare overhaul. Upton is an original cosponsor of the House bill – H.R. 4, the Small Business Paperwork Mandate Elimination Act of 2011 – which today passed the Senate by a vote of 87 to 12, after having passed the House 314 to 112 on March 3. The bill now heads to the White House in order for the President to sign the bill into law. The Ob... Read more

Vol. 45, No. 1 By Rep. Fred Upton - Job creation. It is a simple goal, but in practice, one that Washington lost sight of in the last few years. Well, no more. Cap-and-trade legislation failed in the last Congress, but now we face the threat of Environmental Protection Agency bureaucrats imposing the same agenda through a series of new regulations. We must not allow this Administration to regulate what they have been unable to legislate. Make no mistake, a greenhouse gas regulatory regime has th... Read more

By Andrew Restuccia - Top House Republicans are launching an investigation into the Obama administration's decision to abandon plans to store the country's nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.), the chairman of the panel’s environment subcommittee, said Thursday the investigation will focus on the administration’s motivations for ending funding for the project and withdrawing its license. There ... Read more