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During a House Financial Services Committee hearing last week, Rep. Bill Foster (D-IL) asked Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Russell Vought about consumer debt and the state of the U.S. economy.
A community banking package headed to the House floor this week is dividing Democratic leadership on the Financial Services Committee.
Rep. Bill Foster (Ill.), the top Democrat on the panel’s subcommittee on financial institutions, is whipping fellow Democrats to approve the Main Street Capital Access Act, according to four sources with knowledge of the outreach. That puts Foster on a collision course with ranking member Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), who strongly opposes it and is whipping members against the package.
Rep. Bill Foster discusses bipartisan legislation intended to strengthen America’s digital identity infrastructure and combat identity fraud and theft. The Stop Identity Fraud and Identity Theft Act would establish a government-wide approach to online identity verification as organized criminal networks and hostile nation-states increasingly exploit existing vulnerabilities.
During a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Tuesday, Rep. Bill Foster (D-IL) asked Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh about the independence of the Federal Reserve.
The future of AI governance isn't just about regulating models—it's about rebuilding trust in the digital world.
In this episode of the Regulating AI Podcast, host Sanjay Puri sits down with Congressman Bill Foster—the only PhD physicist serving in the U.S. House of Representatives—to discuss some of the biggest policy challenges facing artificial intelligence today.
As members of Congress grapple with ways to regulate the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence, they’re also divided on how to use it in their own personal and professional lives.
In Illinois, U.S. Rep. Bill Foster, a former Fermilab physicist, is using AI to help draft legislation. U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth says she “involuntarily” uses it in Google searches. Others, like U.S. Rep. Delia Ramirez are purposefully steering clear.
In this episode, NENSC Co-Chair Daniel Poneman sits down with Congressman Bill Foster — particle physicist, former Fermilab scientist, and the only PhD physicist serving in Congress — for a conversation on what technical rigor brings to the biggest questions in nuclear policy.
People commuting to Crystal Lake will now have the option to rent a Pace vehicle through the transit agency’s VanGo program that aims to fill “first and last mile gaps” in commutes.
Pace Suburban Bus launched its VanGo program with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thursday at the Pingree Road Metra Station in Crystal Lake.
House members on Wednesday debated the Payments Access and Consumer Efficiency Act, which would expand Federal Reserve services access.
House members sparred at a Wednesday hearing over whether to offer fintechs access to Federal Reserve payments systems under the proposed Payments Access and Consumer Efficiency Act.