Here are the key points the site makes for not confirming Upton as the Chair for the Energy and COmmerce Committee.

Funny, not many substantive energy issues mentioned...


•Fred Upton has voted repeatedly for tax increases and was one of just 3 Republicans to vote against extending tax relief in 2005
•Fred Upton voted again and again against efforts to cut even the most offensive of pork barrel earmarks, from opposing cutting a $500,000 California swimming pool to a $100,000 “wine initiative”
•Fred Upton repeatedly voted against even the smallest attempts to rein in spending—including multiple votes against just a 1% reduction in spending
•Fred Upton regularly sided with Nancy Pelosi to override President Bush’s vetoes of bloated Democratic spending bills
•Fred Upton voted for increases in government-controlled health care
•Fred Upton voted repeatedly for onerous increases in federal regulations
•Fred Upton voted for one bailout after another, including the Wall Street bailout (twice), the auto bailout, and the notorious “cash for clunkers” scheme
•Fred Upton voted against limiting Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s powers at the height of the housing bubble
•Fred Upton voted against Republican efforts to limit farm subsidies, Amtrak subsidies, sugar subsidies...and the list goes on and on and on.


http://downwithupton.com/