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.

Upton defeated him 66%-32%. [who?] He is a member of several Republican groups such as the Republican Main Street Partnership and Christine Todd Whitman's IMP-PAC (Its My Party Too). " In April 2009 he maintained that "climate change is a serious problem that necessitates serious solutions.

Frederick Stephen "Fred" Upton (born April 23 1953) is the U. The district stretches along the Michigan-Indiana border in the southwestern part of the state.