WASHINGTON — After 36 years in Congress, Republican U.S. Rep. Fred Upton has emptied his three offices, turned in the keys and shipped 102 boxes of his papers to the University of Michigan's library.
He cast the last of nearly 22,000 votes in the House of Representatives on Friday afternoon, voting "yay" on a $1.7 trillion package to fund the federal government for the next year before a short-term stopgap was set to expire later in the day.
But with his retirement looming, Upton gave no indication that he had slowed down on a recent weekday on Capitol Hill, reporting that he’d attended a bipartisan caucus meeting, an Aspen Institute policy breakfast, talked with a couple of Senate colleagues and returned a flurry of media calls all before noon.
