Rep. Fred Upton

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2022 Report Card for Upton.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Upton is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2022 positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills legislators sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2017 to Dec 27, 2022. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation

Upton was the primary sponsor of 13 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• H.R. 500 (116th): Christa McAuliffe Commemorative Coin Act of 2019
• H.R. 5800 (115th): Medicaid Institutes for Mental Disease Are Decisive in Delivering Inpatient Treatment for Individuals but Opportunities for Needed Access are Limited without Information Needed about Facility Obligations Act
• H.R. 829 (115th): Prioritizing the Most Vulnerable Over Lottery Winners Act of 2017
• H.R. 5944 (114th): To amend title 49, United States Code, with respect to certain grant assurances, and for other purposes.
• H.R. 5414 (114th): FDA Cross-Center Collaboration Act of 2016
• H.R. 5728 (113th): STELA Reauthorization Act of 2014
• H.R. 3204 (113th): Drug Quality and Security Act

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Does 13 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.

We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Upton sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Energy (25%) Transportation and Public Works (18%) Health (18%) Science, Technology, Communications (11%) Environmental Protection (7%) Commerce (7%) Private Legislation (7%) Finance and Financial Sector (7%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Upton recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.R. 3801 (117th): SHIELD Act
• H.R. 3262 (117th): GUARD Act
• H.R. 3078 (117th): Pipeline and LNG Facility Cybersecurity Preparedness Act
• H.R. 1717 (117th): Protecting Married Seniors from Impoverishment Act of 2021
• H.R. 1599 (117th): Securing America’s Critical Minerals Supply Act
• H.R. 1600 (117th): Methane Emissions Reduction Act
• H.R. 1525 (117th): DIGITAL Applications Act

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 1987 to Dec 2022, Upton missed 91 of 21,897 roll call votes, which is 0.4%. This is better than the median of 2.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2022. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.

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Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

• unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
• The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
• 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
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills