Fred Upton's Quotes

Obamacare is a seriously flawed law that makes health care coverage less affordable, costs taxpayers more than advertised and fails to deliver on most of its other grand promises.

Originally created to serve the poorest and sickest among us, the Medicaid program has grown dramatically but still doesn't include the kind of flexibility that states need to provide better health care for the poor and disadvantaged.

Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable.

Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate; they didn't want to change the health care they had; they didn't want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship.

The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals.

While the Left seems obsessed with increasing taxes and spending even more money, conservatives have focused more heavily on the need for spending restraint and entitlement reform - primarily to preserve and protect the future of the Medicare program. Overlooked in all of this is the future of Medicaid.

With the discovery of vast new North American energy resources - thanks to the application of proven technologies like hydraulic fracturing and commonsense regulatory processes on non-federal lands - the U.S. government should no longer be in the business of spending taxpayer dollars on risky, exotic energy projects.

Without international participation, jobs and emissions will simply shift overseas to countries that require few, if any, environmental protections, harming the global environment as well as the U.S. economy.

You shouldn't have an overbearing FCC. Let the market work itself. By allowing companies to compete in an unregulated forum, you're going to allow the faster deployment of new services and new equipment consumers are going to want.

People in Michigan are good at separating fact from fiction. They know, better than most of the country, what happens to the economy and jobs when the scales are tipped too far in favor of one group over another.

Together, we will protect the sanctity of life, ensuring early next Congress that no federal funds are used for abortion.

For those broadcasters who are less than responsible, the FCC needs to have sharper teeth to enforce the law.

I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.

I support an all of the above energy policy, so that's not only just Keystone, that's not only just drilling, that's clean coal, that's safe nuclear.

I support renewable energy.

I think we can lower our emissions. I think the world will be better off if we did that, and we can do it without cap and trade.

I'm a Reagan Republican, which means I don't speak ill of other Republicans.

I'm not a rubber stamp, and people know that. If you can convince me of the merits, you will have my vote every time.

Obamacare represents a shocking display of political arrogance. It's about time Washington started listening to Americans' common sense voices.

The Obama administration is on notice - they will not be allowed to regulate what they have been unable to legislate.

Under President Obama's new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned.

We cannot afford the EPA's continued expansion of red tape that is slowing economic growth and threatening to entangle millions of small businesses.

We've heard this before; 'things are bad, we are gonna fix them,' and they remain unfixed.