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Frederick Stephen Upton (born April 23, 1953) is the U.S. Representative for Michigan's 6th congressional district, serving since 1987. He is a member of the Republican Party and former Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce. The district stretches along the Michigan-Indiana border in the southwestern part of the state. If re-elected in 2018, he will become the dean of Michigan's congressional delegation upon the retirement of Sander Levin.

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Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA.

Cutting, Epa, Higher, Mean, Thinking

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

Law, Fcc, Teeth, Sharper, Enforce

I look forward to standing shoulder to shoulder with Speaker Boehner, Leader Cantor, Whip McCarthy and the entire republican conference as we repeal Obamacare, fight rampant job killing regulations, cut spending and help put folks back to work.

Cutting, Fighting, Job, Jobs, Look, Republican

An imposing wall prominently divides the visions of President Obama and congressional Republicans when it comes to economic growth and creating jobs. Solyndra is on one side and the Keystone pipeline is on the other.

Creating, Jobs, Visions, Wall

Common sense tells us that this explosion of media sources should eliminate any concern over a lack of diversity of views in the marketplace and competition.

Common, Common Sense, Media, Views

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

Roots, Long, Challenges, Fiscal, Know, Care

I do know that all of the Michigan delegation worked very hard as related to the revival of the auto industry. There was really a choice between bankruptcy and liquidation. There was no one that was willing to come up not only with the cash to keep them afloat but also to serve the warranties of everyone, you and I that drive all these cars. There was no one that could have picked up those pieces other than the federal government. [The auto bailout was] bipartisan from the get-go. [Without it,] Michigan would have hit 40 percent unemployment rates.

Government, Car, Choices, Liquidation, Unemployment, Know

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.

Country, Jobs, People, Fiction, Scales

Americans want and deserve a broad array of health insurance choices so they can identify those that best fit their own individual or family needs. These choices expand when we allow free enterprise to foster innovation, not smother it with taxes and one-size fits all ideology.

Broad, Choices, Identify, Innovation, Needs

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.

Exact, National, Obamacare, Opposites, Quality, Shameful

Nuclear is not only emissions-free, but renewing our commitment to nuclear power will create countless jobs at a time when our nation endures nearly double-digit unemployment.

Jobs, Commitment, Unemployment

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.

Support, Energy, Nuclear, Drilling, Clean

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

Administration, Allowed, Has Beens, Legislate, Obama

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.

Country, Jobs, Environmental, Shift, Require

Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately, instead of choosing flexibility, President Obama and his left-leaning advisers always default to rigid 'Washington knows best' answers.

Giving, Governors, Leeway, Obamacare, President, Small

I support renewable energy.

Energy, Renewable, Renewable Energy, Support

It's critical - that the people that are benefiting today from Medicare and Social Security that they not see benefit reductions. It's awfully hard to tell someone who might be 82, that they've gotta go back to work, because their benefits are gonna be chopped. That's not gonna happen.

Awfully, Benefits, Chopped, Might, People, See

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.

Caps, Emissions, Lower, Thinking, World

Solyndra will be remembered in the history books as a sad hallmark of a newly installed administration that felt it was above the rules, lusting for positive headlines rather than focused on delivering results.

Administration, Book, Lust, Lusting, Sad, Solyndra

If the EPA continues unabated, jobs will be shipped to China and India as energy costs skyrocket. Most of the media attention has focused on the EPA's efforts to regulate climate-change emissions, but that is just the beginning.

Jobs, Media, Effort, India

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