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Washington, DC – Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed Rep. Bill Foster’s (D-IL) bipartisan FSOC Improvement Act. This legislation would make the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) more responsive to emerging threats by clarifying the process of determining whether a financial firm is systemically important to the financial system.
Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) issued the following statement:
“Today, the last remaining limits on the world’s two largest nuclear arsenals disappear, and the world is now more vulnerable to nuclear escalation than at any point in the last fifteen years.
Washington, DC — Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) issued the following statement on his vote in favor of the funding package that reopens the government, locks in Democratic wins in the budget, and provides a two-week window to negotiate meaningful changes to ICE:
A bipartisan pair of representatives are proposing a federal identity fraud prevention innovation grant program for states to modernize their identity systems and create secure digital IDs.
Reps. Bill Foster, D-Ill., and Pete Sessions, R-Texas, introduced the Stop Identity Fraud and Identity Theft Act on Monday in an aim to counter recent increases in identity fraud and artificial intelligence-powered (AI) deepfakes.
Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Congressmen Bill Foster (D-IL) and Pete Sessions (R-TX) announced the introduction of bipartisan legislation to strengthen America’s digital identity infrastructure and protect individuals, businesses, and government programs from rapidly rising identity fraud and theft. The Stop Identity Fraud and Identity Theft Act establishes a government-wide approach to addressing vulnerabilities in online identity verification that are increasingly exploited by organized criminal networks and hostile nation-states.
Washington, DC — Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) issued the following statement:
"As the top Democrat on the House Subcommittee on Financial Institutions, I am willing to keep an open mind about the nomination of Kevin Warsh. Having served on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors during the 2008 financial crisis, he has seen firsthand what happens when excessive financial risk is ignored and oversight fails in the run-up to the collapse of an investment bubble.
House Democrats' support for articles of impeachment against DHS Secretary Kristi Noem surged again Tuesday, with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) effectively giving his blessing to the effort.
Why it matters: More than three-quarters of the House Democratic caucus is now co-sponsoring the measure, and the list of new signers as of Tuesday afternoon includes some surprising names.
Braving 12-degree weather, protesters in Kane County said their anger over a second fatal shooting by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis was what sent them out into the streets.
Hundreds of people gathered around and along the Silver Glen Road Bridge over Randall Road in South Elgin on Sunday, raising their voices to over what they called the “murder” of Alex Pretti, 37, in Minneapolis on Saturday.
Several federal lawmakers from Illinois vowed to oppose a spending bill for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that passed on Thursday with a 220-207 vote in the House. Seven Democrats joined Republicans to vote in favor of the bill.Before the votes, House Democratic leaders announced their opposition to additional funding for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to the Associated Press.