Former representative · Michigan's 6th district

Fred Upton

Fred Upton served in Congress from 1987 to 2023, last as a Republican representative for Michigan's 6th district. In the 117th Congress, 997 roll calls were held while they served; they missed 1, and cast 423 of 572 party-unity votes with the majority of their caucus.

Party
Republican
Chamber
House
Former
In Congress since
Jan 6, 1987
Last term ended
Jan 3, 2023
Open in the Congress explorerOfficial record
Photo: Government Publishing Office (public domain)

Record by Congress

Counts with their denominators for each Congress and chamber served. Ranks are among members who served most of that Congress (100 or more roll calls): rank 1 did it most often. A description, not a grade.

CongressRoll callsMissedVotes with partySponsoredCosponsored across the aisle
117th CongressHouse of Representatives9970.1%1 of 997 · rank 411 of 44374%423 of 572 · rank 440 of 44370 became law66%144 of 217

Ideology (DW-NOMINATE)

Voteview's DW-NOMINATE first dimension estimates where members sit from all their roll calls: liberal (−1) to conservative (+1). It describes voting patterns, not views. Shown for the 117th Congress (House), with each party's median and the chamber's range.

Liberal −1+0.32+1 Conservative

Source: Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/

Votes against their party

The latest party-unity votes on bills and amendments where the member voted yea or nay against most of their caucus.

  1. H.R. 2617: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023Yea
    Dec 23, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Concur in the Senate Adt to the House Adt to the Senate Adt· Passed 225–201· Against party
  2. H.R. 9640: Presidential Tax Filings and Audit Transparency Act of 2022Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 222–201· Against party
  3. H.R. 8393: Puerto Rico Status ActYea
    Dec 15, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 233–191· Against party
  4. S. 4003: Law Enforcement De-Escalation Training Act of 2022Yea
    Dec 14, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 264–162· Against party
  5. H.R. 1437: Further Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2023Yea
    Dec 14, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment with an Amendment· Passed 224–201· Against party
  6. H.R. 8404: Respect for Marriage ActYea
    Dec 8, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment· Passed 258–169· Against party
  7. H.R. 3372: One Stop Shop Community Reentry Program Act of 2021Yea
    Dec 1, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 259–167· Against party
  8. H.J.Res. 100: To provide for a resolution with respect to the unresolved disputes between certain railroads represented by the National Carriers' Conference Committee of the National Railway Labor Conference and certain of their employees.Yea
    Nov 30, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 290–137· Against party

Recent votes

The latest roll calls on bills and amendments, with the member's recorded position.

  1. H.R. 2617: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023Yea
    Dec 23, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Concur in the Senate Adt to the House Adt to the Senate Adt· Passed 225–201· Against party
  2. H.R. 7939: Veterans Auto and Education Improvement Act of 2022Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendment· Passed 380–35
  3. S. 1402: Durbin Feeling Native American Languages Act of 2022Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 337–79
  4. S. 989: Native American Language Resource Center Act of 2022Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 342–71
  5. S. 5087: A bill to amend the Not Invisible Act of 2019 to extend, and provide additional support for, the activities of the Department of the Interior and the Department of Justice Joint Commission on Reducing Violent Crime Against Indians, and for other purposes.Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 374–44
  6. S. 4104: Hualapai Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2022Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 360–55
  7. S. 3773: A bill to authorize leases of up to 99 years for land held in trust for the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation.Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 377–42
  8. S. 1942: National Heritage Area ActYea
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 326–95
  9. H.R. 9640: Presidential Tax Filings and Audit Transparency Act of 2022Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· House· Passage· On Passage· Passed 222–201· Against party
  10. S. 3308: Colorado River Indian Tribes Water Resiliency Act of 2022Yea
    Dec 21, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 397–12
  11. S. 3168: A bill to amend the White Mountain Apache Tribe Water Rights Quantification Act of 2010 to modify the enforceability date for certain provisions, and for other purposes.Yea
    Dec 21, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass· Passed 378–33
  12. H.R. 1917: Hazard Eligibility and Local Projects ActYea
    Dec 21, 2022· House· Passage· On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Concur in the Senate Amendment· Passed 393–19

Sponsored bills

Bills and resolutions the member introduced as sponsor in the loaded Congresses. Volume is not quality: most measures never leave committee.

7 sponsored · 0 became law

How far they got

  1. Introduced7100%

Policy areas

  1. Energy3
  2. Commerce1
  3. Health1
  4. Science, Technology, Communications1
  5. Transportation and Public Works1

Latest activity

  1. H.R. 3078 Pipeline and LNG Facility Cybersecurity Preparedness Act
    Introduced· Energy· Jun 10, 2021
  2. H.R. 3801 SHIELD Act
    Introduced· Commerce· Jun 9, 2021
  3. H.R. 3262 GUARD Act
    Introduced· Transportation and Public Works· May 17, 2021
  4. H.R. 1525 DIGITAL Applications Act
    Introduced· Science, Technology, Communications· Apr 28, 2021
  5. H.R. 1717 Protecting Married Seniors from Impoverishment Act of 2021
    Introduced· Health· Mar 10, 2021
  6. H.R. 1600 Methane Emissions Reduction Act
    Introduced· Energy· Mar 4, 2021
  7. H.R. 1599 Securing America’s Critical Minerals Supply Act
    Introduced· Energy· Mar 4, 2021

Committees

Seats as published by the congress-legislators project. Past seats are those no longer listed since Analisa began recording them.

No committee seats are listed.

Federal contracts in the district

Contract obligations attributed to Michigan's 6th district by each action's county and its award's ZIP code (land shares through census tracts); an estimate where ZIP codes cross district lines. Shown next to the member's record: neither explains the other.

Contract money is attributed to districts from the 118th Congress boundaries onward; this member's last district predates them.

Campaign money

What the member's campaigns reported receiving, per FEC two-year cycle, and the federal contracts of the organizations that sponsor the giving PACs (each sponsor matched to a contract recipient by AI, with its probability). Comparisons of public records: neither explains the other.

2022 cycle

Raised
$1.8M
through Dec 31, 2022
Cash on hand
$533.6K
From committees
$642.1K
246 committees
From contractor PACs
$182K
72 PACs · 28% of committee money
IndividualsPACsPartySelf

Largest gifts from PACs of federal contractors, 2022

PAC sponsorGivenMatched contract recipientIts contracts, FY2026
american college of emergency physiciansnational emergency medicine political action committee / american college of emergency physicians$7,500AMERICAN COLLEGE OF EMERGENCY PHYSICIANSAI match · 100% · the same organization$92K
american hospital associationamerican hospital association pac$5,500AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATIONAI match · 99% · the same organization$1.2M
american bankers association (aba)american bankers association pac (bankpac)$5,000AMERICAN BANKERS ASSOCIATIONAI match · 100% · the same organization—
pfizer inc.pfizer inc. pac$5,000PFIZER INCAI match · 100% · the same organization-$140.2K
kellogg companykellogg company better government committee$5,000KELLOGG COMPANYAI match · 99% · the same organization—
abbott laboratoriesabbott laboratories employee political action committee$5,000ABBOTT LABORATORIES INC.AI match · 100% · the same organization$90M
general motors companygeneral motors company political action committee (gm pac)$5,000GENERAL MOTORS LLCAI match · 100% · of one corporate family$652.9M
honeywell internationalhoneywell international political action committee$5,000HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.AI match · 100% · the same organization$260.5M
at&t inc.at&t inc. employee federal political action committee (at&t employee federal pac)$5,000AT&T CORP.,AI match · 100% · of one corporate family-$3,412
intel corporationintel corporation political action committee (ipac)$5,000INTEL CORPORATIONAI match · 99% · the same organization—

Raised is the FEC's cumulative summary of the candidacy; committee money counts each contribution reported, so the two cover slightly different dates.

Terms

Every term in the House or Senate, as published by the congress-legislators project.

  1. House · Michigan's 6th districtJan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023
  2. House · Michigan's 6th districtJan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021
  3. House · Michigan's 6th districtJan 3, 2017 – Jan 3, 2019
  4. House · Michigan's 6th districtJan 6, 2015 – Jan 3, 2017
  5. House · Michigan's 6th districtJan 3, 2013 – Jan 3, 2015
  6. House · Michigan's 6th districtJan 5, 2011 – Jan 3, 2013
  7. House · Michigan's 6th districtJan 6, 2009 – Jan 3, 2011
  8. House · Michigan's 6th districtJan 4, 2007 – Jan 3, 2009
  9. House · Michigan's 6th districtJan 4, 2005 – Jan 3, 2007
  10. House · Michigan's 6th districtJan 7, 2003 – Jan 3, 2005
  11. House · Michigan's 6th districtJan 3, 2001 – Jan 3, 2003
  12. House · Michigan's 6th districtJan 6, 1999 – Jan 3, 2001
  13. House · Michigan's 6th districtJan 7, 1997 – Jan 3, 1999
  14. House · Michigan's 6th districtJan 4, 1995 – Jan 3, 1997
  15. House · Michigan's 6th districtJan 5, 1993 – Jan 3, 1995
  16. House · Michigan's 4th districtJan 3, 1991 – Jan 3, 1993
  17. House · Michigan's 4th districtJan 3, 1989 – Jan 3, 1991
  18. House · Michigan's 4th districtJan 6, 1987 – Jan 3, 1989

Identifiers

The same member in other public records.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
  • Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Congressional district boundaries and relationship files (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, Cartographic Boundary Files (congressional districts) and 2020 relationship files · release cd116+cd118+cd119 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission)FEC bulk data: committee master, candidate master (candidates' names, no addresses), linkages, PAC summaries, all-candidates summaries and contributions from committees (no individual contributors) · data current to Oct 5, 2026 · loaded Oct 5, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov)USAspending.gov, prime award contract transactions (FPDS) · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
  • Activity counts describe volume and attendance; they are not a measure of quality.
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.