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

Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today expressed disappointment in response to the Obama Administration's expanding its offshore drilling moratorium. Upton, co-chair of the American Energy Solutions Group, strongly supports an “all of the above” approach to fortify the nation's energy needs, including a greater emphasis on domestic exploration, coal, the advancement of breakthrough technologies, and the promotion of emissions-free nuclear p... 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

U.S. Reps. Fred Upton (MI-06) and Ed Whitfield (KY-01), senior Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today called on the U.S. Secretary of Commerce to immediately release the department's economic impact analysis of EPA's Boiler Maximum Available Control Technology (MACT) rule. Upton and Whitfield are gravely concerned with various reports that forecast drastic costs and crippling job losses resulting from EPA's proposed rule change. Time is critical as final rules are expected... 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

By Josh Voorhees - Fred Upton has yet to secure the Energy and Commerce chairmanship, but that hasn’t stopped the Michigan Republican from acting like he’s already got the gavel in hand. Yesterday, he sent a letter to Steven Chu quizzing the Energy secretary on the details of the roughly $40 billion that last year’s stimulus package sent to DOE and demanding the specific job-creation figures for a half dozen individual grants. In his letter, Upton writes that the White House and congressional De... 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

Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is seeking answers from Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu on the impact the administration's $800 billion stimulus package had on jobs. Despite repeated claims that the stimulus would keep the nation's unemployment rate below 8 percent, it has remained at or above 9.5 percent for 15 consecutive months. In the letter to Secretary Chu, Upton wrote, "The Obama administration and congressional Democrats ... Read more

Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI), senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is urging the Environmental Protection Agency to stand down in its efforts to regulate coal combustion residuals (CCRs). Upton pointed out that EPA already concluded in its final 2000 regulatory determination that CCRs do not warrant regulation under RCRA’s hazardous waste program and there is not a technical or legal basis for reversing that final decision. Currently, approximately 44 percent of CCRs are re... Read more

Rep. Fred Upton, the Michigan Republican seeking to lead the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has plenty of ideas for energy reform. But they don’t include cap-and-trade, a carbon tax or a monstrous overarching bill. Instead he seeks reasonable, smaller-size reforms, The Hill reports. “That would be a sharp contrast to current Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., who moved a nearly 1,100-page climate and energy bill through the committee in 2009, a measure that narrowly passed the House but died... Read more