Congressman Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph, sent a letter of support to U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx on behalf of the Michigan Department of Transportation’s application for federal grant funding for the I-94 Kalamazoo Interstate Modernization and Capacity Improvement Project. The federal funding grant is available through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s FASTLANE Program. FASTLANE grants were created under last year’s FAST Act, of which Upton was a conferee, which r... Read more

VAI scientists advocate for biomedical research improvements Congressman visits GR in support of 21st Century Cures Act. The National Institutes of Health could get an injection of $2 billion per year for the next five years if the 21st Century Cures Act makes it to President Barack Obama’s desk in the coming months. U.S. Representative Fred Upton (R-St. Joseph) was in Grand Rapids recently meeting with researchers at Van Andel Institute to build support for the bill, which has already passed th... Read more

A Senate committee approved a legislative package Wednesday that lawmakers say will become part of its response to House legislation by Michigan Rep. Fred Upton that is designed to deliver cash and reforms that would expedite treatment and cures of chronic diseases like cancer. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee passed five bills that the panel’s chairman Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., said would allow researchers at federal agencies like the Food and Drug Administration ... Read more

U.S. Rep Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph, yesterday joined research leaders at Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan, along with research leaders from Spectrum Health, Michigan State University Medical School, Mercy Health, and Western Michigan University Medical School for a roundtable discussion on “The Medical Mile as it Relates to 21st Century Cures.” Upton also toured the institute and met with young scientists to discuss their research and perspectives. WOOD TV 8’s Rick Albin has the stor... Read more

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph, yesterday joined his colleagues on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Energy and Power in unanimously approving a Discussion Draft of the Pipeline Safety Act of 2016. The Discussion Draft contains spending authorizations for the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) and targeted mandates to increase transparency and accountability, complete overdue regulations, and improve safety. “We can ... Read more

Congressman Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph, today announced the appointment of Daniel Christensen of Augusta, Michigan, to the United States Air Force Academy. “I’m pleased to be able to nominate a third member of the Christensen family to the Air Force Academy,” said Upton. “It’s an exhaustive process to go through, but such a great honor to be accepted as a future cadet. Folks in our community ought to be proud of Daniel and his accomplishments thus far. We expect great things in the future. I encou... Read more

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph, yesterday joined his colleagues on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations in hosting a “Broad Review of Concussions: Initial Roundtable.” The bipartisan roundtable brought together leaders of medical, military, athletic, and research communities to discuss concussions and head trauma. “A neurosurgeon at Michigan’s Bronson Methodist Hospital told me in February, ‘What we have identified is ... Read more

Congressman Upton joins WWMT Channel 3 to discuss the bipartisan passage of the Flint Water/EPA reform bill, the president’s budget, 21st Century Cures, the GOP presidential primary, and the threat of the Zika Virus. Click HERE to watch. Read more

It's been less than three months since Chad Carr, the 5-year-old grandson of former University of Michigan football coach Lloyd Carr, died following a 15-month battle with an inoperable brain tumor. But his legacy lives on. Chad's passing in November came at the hands of diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, an extremely rare type of pediatric brain cancer. The fact that there's currently no cure was noted on Friday as U.S. Reps. Debbie Dingell and Fred Upton traveled to southeast Michigan to discus... Read more

The world we live in today is rapidly changing, highly interconnected, and uniquely threatened in ways not thought possible when our electric grid first came online. When it comes to keeping our country safe, nothing is more under-the-radar yet crucial to the nation’s well-being than our electric grid infrastructure. Everything from cyber-attacks to electromagnetic pulse waves, severe weather to seismic events has the potential to shut down or disrupt parts of the grid. The results of these disr... Read more