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Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Bill Foster (IL-11) announced that Keith Bryant, a student trustee at Joliet Junior College, will be his guest for the State of the Union address.
Joliet Junior College (JJC) is America’s first public community college. JJC provides vocational training, adult education and literacy programs and pre-baccalaureate courses.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Bill Foster announced his staff will continue mobile office service at a new location in Bolingbrook. The mobile office will be open to any 11th District resident needing assistance.
Dedicating at least a part of your life to public service is a lesson U.S. Rep. Bill Foster, D-Naperville, learned from his father, who helped write federal Civil Rights legislation.
He encouraged students at the Joliet Job Corps winter commencement to discover how they can also serve others.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Bill Foster (IL-11) expressed disappointment in the USPS plan to end Saturday mail service and released the following statement:
Illinois lawmakers reintroduced the Visa Waiver Program Enhanced Security and Reform Act, legislation that would waive visas for visitors to the U.S. from countries like Poland.
Question: What can bring together local politicians on both sides of the aisle like just about no other issue?
Answer: Apple pie and motherhood, I suppose. But definitely Polish immigration rights.
Washington, D.C. – Yesterday, Congressman Bill Foster (IL-11) cosponsored the Visa Waiver Program Enhanced Security and Reform Act introduced by Illinois Congressmen Mike Quigley (D-IL), Aaron Schock (R-IL) and Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL).
Washington, D.C. – Today, Tuesday, January 29, 2013 marks the 4th anniversary of the signing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. The act reversed a Supreme Court decision that restricted a woman's ability to challenge pay discrimination in the workplace.
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Bill Foster (IL-11) released the following statement on the immigration proposal announced today by a bipartisan group of senators.
She'd seen posters promoting the D.C. trip, but Nicolette Geron thought she had to be in a specific class to be eligible to go.
When the Naperville Central High School senior found out the trek to the nation's capital for Inauguration Day was open to everybody, she jumped at the chance.