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Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) and Congressman Randy Feenstra (R-IA) introduced the bipartisan National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program Reauthorization Act.
Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) and Congresswoman Teresa Leger Fernández (D-NM), the Democratic Co-Chairs of the National Labs Caucus, introduced the National Laboratory Biotechnology Research Act.
Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) and Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) introduced the Critical Materials Processing Technology Testbed Act, legislation that would allow the Department of Energy to create a testbed to pilot and study new, safer materials processing technologies needed to bolster our battery supply chain. This testbed would aim to kick-start a domestic materials processing industry in the United States with a focus on environmental sustainability, energy efficiency, and minimizing resource intensiveness.
Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) issued the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Respect for Marriage Act to ensure critical protections for same-sex and interracial couples:
Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) and U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) applauded last night’s Senate passage of H.R. 700, legislation to rename the U.S. Post Office facility located at 303 E. Mississippi Ave. in Elwood, Illinois, after former Will County Executive Lawrence M. “Larry” Walsh, Sr. The bill will now head to President Biden’s desk for his signature.
Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Representatives Bill Foster (D-IL-11) and Lauren Underwood (D-IL-14), and U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) introduced legislation to rename Fermilab’s Integrated Engineering Research Center (IERC) after the late Dr. Helen Edwards, who worked at Fermilab as a particle physicist for 40 years. The newly-constructed IERC, which was recently authorized for official use, will be home to new office and lab space that will host an intersection of scientific disciplines.
Washington, D.C. – This week, marking the first anniversary of the historic Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) highlighted the federal investments that are already creating good-paying jobs and transforming Illinois communities.
Foster to honor Pat Van Doren for work with homeless
U.S. Rep Bill Foster, D-Naperville, will honor former Naperville Sun photojournalist Pat Van Doren for decades of work covering family homelessness in an event at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 12, at Heritage Woods of Bolingbrook, 550 Kildeer Drive.
For 30 years, Van Doren created poignant images of infants, children and adults experiencing homelessness, which led to changes in state and federal legislation.
Lawmakers from both parties say the Federal Reserve needs legislative authority to issue a digital dollar, but the two sides have so far been unable to find a balance between privacy and security that could overcome the partisan divide.
The White House’s exploration of a government-backed digital dollar is raising an implicit question that has received little attention: What role does Congress have in the decision?
Federal Reserve officials, including Chairman Jerome Powell, have said the central bank wouldn’t issue a digital dollar without support from Congress, but that leaves open at least the possibility that the Fed could move forward with buy-in that falls short of legislation. And that, in turn, raises a new question: What would buy-in have to look like to satisfy the Fed?