House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) highlighted the committee’s success in 2013 on Monday and pledged to continue oversight of the Affordable Care Act and growing the economy in 2014. “We had a strong record of accomplishment in 2013, and we look forward to building upon our record of bipartisan success,” Upton said. “The committee will remain focused on promoting job creation and economic growth, transforming Washington to create a smaller, modernized governme... Read more

The House of Representatives will consider H.R. 3350, the Keep Your Health Plan Act, next week. The Keep Your Health Plan Act was introduced by Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph, and has been cosponsored by more than 130 members. The bill would allow health plans currently available on the individual market to continue next year, providing Americans the opportunity to continue to enroll in those plans without penalty under the health care law. “Folks in Michigan and across th... Read more

"If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what." This promise from President Obama has been pervasive and unequivocal. Yet I am hearing from countless concerned constituents in Michigan who are losing their coverage. They are joined by millions of Americans who took the president at his word and are now receiving insurance termination notices and alternatives that are often much more expensive. Making matters wor... Read more

The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Congressman Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph, today heard from Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on the health care rollout. The hearing, entitled “PPACA Implementation Failures: Answers from HHS,” focused on the failures and issues surrounding the implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges. Last Thursday, Upton’s committee heard from several of the health care law’s top contractors. Click here to watch U... Read more

In the Weekly Republican Address, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph, highlighted efforts to provide fairness for all Americans under the President’s health care law, and get to the bottom of what went wrong with its rollout. The committee will hear from Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Wednesday, October 30 and Upton notes that "the bipartisan chorus has been growing ... to delay the penalty that Americans would face for being unable to... Read more

Congressman Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph, voted today to bring greater accountability to Michigan taxpayers by preventing fraudulent and wasteful payments under the Affordable Care Act. On July 5, 2013, while many Americans were enjoying a long Independence Day weekend with loved ones, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) dumped more than 600 pages of new health care regulations into the public domain. Buried within those pages was the HHS report stating the government would not be... Read more

Nearly 75 percent of all small businesses report that government regulations are hurting their bottom line operations, according to a January 2013 Wells Fargo/Gallup survey. Last year, federal rulemaking imposed a financial burden of $1.75 trillion on the U.S. economy – a figure that equaled almost 14 percent of national income. The House of Representatives today passed common-sense legislation to provide regulatory relief for these employers and guarantee that federal bureaucrats are held accou... Read more

Speaking on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives earlier today, Congressman Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph, demanded relief for Michigan families and businesses from the Affordable Care Act. Upton, who serves as Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, urged the chamber to pass legislation that would delay both the law’s employer and individual mandates. The Authority for Mandate Delay Act, H.R. 2667, delays for one year the healthcare law’s requirement that employers who empl... Read more

By Rep. Fred Upton For the last three years, the Affordable Care Act – commonly known as Obamacare – has been plagued by broken promises, projected cost increases, delays, and missed deadlines. Last week over the Independence Day holiday, the healthcare law continued to unravel. First, the Obama administration announced a one-year delay of the “employer mandate,” a key component of the healthcare law that requires all businesses with more than 50 workers to provide health insurance to their empl... Read more

Following the exposure of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) actions that targeted conservative-leaning organizations, Congressman Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph, is demanding stronger protections for American taxpayers by making it a crime for IRS employees to engage in targeted discrimination. Upton is a cosponsor of the Taxpayer Nondiscrimination and Protection Act of 2013, H.R. 1950, which aims to prevent such biased, politically-motivated discrimination by increasing the maximum penalty for IRS emplo... Read more