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U.S. Rep. Bill Foster, D-Naperville, announced that 14 projects in the 11th Congressional District are getting a total of $13.4 million in federal funds through the Community Project Funding, according to a news release from Foster’s office.
The 14 projects that received funding are:
Boone County
City of Belvidere Appleton Road Grade Separation
City of Belvidere
Amount funded: About $1.7 million
Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) introduced the Autofill Act. This legislation would create a voluntary tax filing program to allow individuals to use a secure IRS website to download a tax form automatically populated with information the IRS already collects from employers, the Social Security Administration, and financial institutions. The information from the populated tax forms would be available as both a printable document and a computer-readable file compatible with existing tax preparation software.
Congress is just starting to ramp up its efforts to regulate artificial intelligence, but one member says he first encountered the technology in the 1990s, when he used neural networks to study physics. Now, Rep. Bill Foster, D-Ill., is returning to AI as a member of the new bipartisan task force on artificial intelligence, led by Reps. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., and Jay Obernolte, R-Calif., which was announced by House leadership earlier this week.
Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) issued the following statement after being appointed to the bipartisan House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence:
“It’s an honor to be appointed to the Task Force on Artificial Intelligence. As a PhD physicist who first programmed neural networks at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in the 1990s, I’ve been tracking the exponential growth of this technology for decades – and the time is ripe for Congress to take action.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has convened high-profile forums on artificial intelligence for months. Now, the two leaders of the House are getting in on the action as lawmakers struggle to regulate the fast-moving technology.
U.S. Rep Bill Foster, D-Naperville, has announced that union president Matt Frantzen will be his guest at President Joe Biden’s State of the Union Address on March 7.
Frantzen is president of United Auto Workers Local 1268 in Belvidere and met with Biden during a visit to Belvidere last November to celebrate a planned reopening of the Belvidere Assembly Plant as part of a new labor contract. The UAW workers negotiated with Stellantis to revitalize the plant that was idled last February and laid off 1,200 workers.
Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) released the following statement:
"This week's reports on increasing space-based offensive nuclear capabilities of Russia and today's reporting of the death in prison of Alexei Navalny should serve as a reminder to my Republican colleagues who continue to block assistance to Ukraine that they are putting our country and the free world in danger by their refusal to govern."
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The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) applauds the introduction of H.R. 7379, the Patient Matching and Transparency in Certified Health IT (MATCH IT) Act of 2024 by Representative Mike Kelly (R-PA) and Representative Bill Foster (D-IL) in the U.S. House of Representatives today. You can find the bill text here.
Washington, DC - Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) announced that Matt Frantzen, President of UAW Local 1268 in Belvidere, will be his guest for this year’s State of the Union Address.
Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) released the following statement on the fifth anniversary of the mass shooting that took place at the Henry Pratt Company in Aurora, Illinois: