Analysis
Our unique analysis of the bills Upton has sponsored and cosponsored provides insight into his position in the House of Representatives.
Each dot in the chart below is a member of the House of Representatives. The dots are positioned horizontally according to our progressive—conservative ideology score and vertically according to our leadership score (leaders toward the top). Upton is shown as a purple triangle. (analysis methodology)
2015 Statistics
Read our 2015 Report Card for Upton for more statistics.
Committee Membership
Fred Upton sits on the following committees:
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Chairman,
House Committee on Energy and Commerce
- Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade
- Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Communications and Technology
- Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Energy and Power
- Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy
- Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Health
- Ex Officio, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Upton sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Health (38%) Energy (31%) Transportation and Public Works (19%) Private Legislation (13%)
Recent Bills
Some of Upton’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- H.R. 5944: To amend title 49, United States Code, with respect to certain grant assurances, ...
- H.R. 5414: FDA Cross-Center Collaboration Act of 2016
- H.R. 5168: Christa McAuliffe Commemorative Coin Act of 2016
- H.R. 5050: Pipeline Safety Act of 2016
- H.R. 8: North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 2015
- H.R. 6: 21st Century Cures Act
- H.R. 809: For the relief of Ibrahim Parlak.
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Voting Record
From Jan 1987 to Sep 2016, Upton missed 52 of 18,669 roll call votes, which is 0.3%. This is better than the median of 2.3% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GPO.gov/FDSys, for sponsored bills