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Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) announced that 12 of the Community Project Funding (CPF) requests he made on behalf of the 11th Congressional District of Illinois were included in the appropriations “minibus” that passed Congress late last week for a total of $10,918,287. The package has been signed into law by President Biden.
Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) released the following statement on President Biden's State of the Union Address:
“Last night, President Biden made a strong case for continuing the American success story that has happened under his leadership.
Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) joined 61 Members of Congress in urging the Biden Administration to use their leverage to negotiate a stop to the fighting in Gaza and implement policies centered around a two-state solution.
In Black communities, people don’t go to the salon or barber shop only to have their hair done.
A wash, cut and blow dry for Black hair can take two hours, minimum, said Donna Lowe, owner of the Donna Lowe Salon in Algonquin. That is why she has worked to make her salon part of the larger community, giving members a place to meet and talk whether they get their hair styled and set at the time or not.
“Our salons are not just a place to get hair done. It is where community meets and talks. It is intergenerational conversations with organic discussions,” Lowe said.
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.