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Washington, D.C. – Today, Representatives Bill Foster (IL-11) and Sean Patrick Maloney (NY-18) introduced the Expanding Opportunities for Recovery Act. The legislation would create a grant program to increase access to in-patient rehabilitation services for heroin and other opioid abuse.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Bill Foster voted for H.R.3230, the Veterans' Access to Care through Choice, Accountability, and Transparency Act of 2014. The legislation, which passed with strong bipartisan support, will improve care for veterans and increase accountability at VA facilities.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Bill Foster voted for H.R. 5021, the Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2014. The legislation will provide much needed funding for the Highway and Transit Trust Fund and reauthorize the Surface Transportation programs through May 31, 2015.
In case you missed it, the Chicago Tribune profiled homeowners struggling with an underwater mortgage and Congressman Bill Foster's efforts to help. In January, Foster introduced legislation to extend the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act, which would provide tax relief to underwater homeowners.
Scott and Caroline Schmauderer know all the acronyms and the nitty-gritty details of the federal government's various programs to help homeowners like themselves, whose plans were derailed by the housing bust.
They read up on loan modifications, but they aren't behind on their mortgage payments, so they don't qualify for one.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Bill Foster voted for legislation to end tax giveaways for companies that ship jobs overseas. Foster voted for the Democratic-backed provision which would end corporate giveaways by ending "corporate inversions," a process corporations have used to avoid paying U.S. taxes by reincorporating as a "foreign" company.