While the Left seems obsessed with increasing taxes and spending even more money, conservatives have focused more heavily on the need for spending restraint and entitlement reform - primarily to preserve and protect the future of the Medicare program. Overlooked in all of this is the future of Medicaid.

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.