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WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives is preparing to vote on a bipartisan bill aimed at preventing Americans' energy bills from spiking because of nearby data centers, according to Speaker Mike Johnson's office.
Republicans plan to bring the Ratepayer Protection Act to the House floor for a vote next week. It's expected to be considered "under suspension," a fast-tracked process that means leadership is confident the legislation can pass.
WASHINGTON—A groundswell of urgency over artificial intelligence is surging in Congress amid growing fears that the technology could destroy civilization.
After years of limited actions, dozens of lawmakers are now touting new proposals to regulate artificial-intelligence models that have stepped up their capabilities.
During a House Financial Services Committee hearing last week, Rep. Bill Foster (D-IL) spoke about the global shift away from the dollar.
The Justice Department last year queried a dozen scientific publications, including Science, Nature Medicine, and Pediatrics, on their “partisan” positions in scientific debates, newly released records show.
Several members of the Illinois congressional delegation are calling for the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general to formally investigate federal agents for multiple allegations of excessive use of force during last year’s Operation Midway Blitz, including “accountability” for the agent who shot Chicagoan Marimar Martinez last fall.
Congressman Bill Foster (IL-11) joined FHLBank Chicago, the Housing Opportunity Development Corporation, McHenry County Officials, and local housing leaders in McHenry, Illinois, for a discussion on housing affordability and housing supply challenges facing communities across the state.
Leaders of the Democratic and Republican parties in Lake County agree on the most important issue — affordability — for voters in the Nov. 3 federal, state and local elections, but they offer different explanations for their reasoning.
Both Dawn Abernathy, the Lake County Republican Central Committee chair, and Keith Brin, the GOP State Central Committee person for the 10th Congressional District, said people are challenged to make ends meet because they are overtaxed.
Two under-the-radar financial agencies currently have no power to oversee technology providers used by the entities they regulate, making them outliers among their federal peers. A new bill in the House would change that.
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers is demanding answers from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) after what they described as an "alarming pattern" of inaccurate, unresponsive correspondence that has frustrated congressional offices helping constituents navigate the immigration system.
Thousands of immigrant children who arrived in the U.S. without parents are losing their legal representation, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and U.S. Rep. Bill Foster said Friday.
Speaking at a news conference in Naperville, the two congressmen held the briefing to draw attention to the federal government’s failure to renew a contract under which legal services for children who entered the U.S. without a parent or guardian are paid.