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March 10, 2022

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) announced that all 10 Community Project Funding (CPF) requests he made on behalf of the 11th Congressional District of Illinois were included in the final House-passed omnibus spending bill for a total of $18,870,000.

March 1, 2022

Washington, D.C. – Tonight, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) released the following statement after President Biden delivered the State of the Union address:

February 24, 2022

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) issued the following statement after Russian military forces launched an invasion of Ukraine:

February 18, 2022

Waukegan, IL – U.S. Representative Bill Foster (D-IL-11), along with U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), and U.S. Representatives Brad Schneider (D-IL-10), Lauren Underwood (D-IL-14), and Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL-08) today were joined by Senior Advisor to President Biden on Infrastructure Coordination Mitch Landrieu and U.S.

February 17, 2022

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL), Congresswoman Kim Schrier (D-WA), Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA), and Congressman Mark Green (R-TN) led a bipartisan group of eight Members of Congress in calling for greater federal efforts to research and develop COVID-19 combination therapies, or drug "cocktails."

February 15, 2022

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) introduced a House resolution to honor the victims of the shooting that took place at the Henry Pratt Company in Aurora, Illinois on February 15, 2019.

February 14, 2022

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) and Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN) led 14 of their Democratic colleagues to call on House leadership to move forward with an extension of the COVID-19 sick leave mandate, which expired in December of 2020.

February 4, 2022

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) issued the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed the America COMPETES Act:

February 3, 2022

Washington, D.C. – Tonight, the U.S. House of Representatives adopted multiple amendments offered by Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) into the final version of the COMPETES Act.

February 2, 2022

Washington, DC – Today, Reps. Bill Foster (D-IL), Mark Takano (D-CA), Sean Casten (D-IL), and Don Beyer (D-VA) reintroduced the Office of Technology Assessment Improvement and Enhancement Act to strengthen the existing Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) by making it more available and accessible to Members' needs.