Longtime Michigan Republican Rep. Fred Upton announced Tuesday that he will be retiring at the end of his current term.
“Reagan worked both sides of the aisle to get things done, caring less about who got the credit, and I made a promise that such a principle would be my guiding light,” Upton said on the House floor.
Upton, a former Reagan administration staffer whose congressional career led him to the chairmanship of the Energy and Commerce Committee, was first elected to the House in 1986. He highlighted his legislative career in his retirement announcement from the floor.
