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A new bill that would require a national mandatory three-day waiting period when buying a gun could help save lives from gun violence and suicide, a Harvard Business School professor said at a roundtable discussion on gun safety in Aurora.
The study, authored by Harvard professor Deepak Malhotra, Michael Luca and Christopher Poliquin, found that handgun waiting periods reduce gun homicides by 17% and gun suicides by 10%.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) and Congressman Jim Baird (R-IN) announced that they will serve as co-chairs of the Congressional Research & Development Caucus for the 116th Congress. The R&D Caucus was established in the 108th Congress with the purpose of highlighting the economic and societal importance of research and development, and to advocate for federal research and development funding.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) issued the following statement on Attorney General William Barr's summary letter of the Mueller report:
Joliet, IL – Today, Congressman Bill Foster (IL-11) issued the following statement announcing the opening of a new district office in Joliet:
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) reintroduced a bipartisan resolution, H.Res. 232, in honor of Pi Day, March 14. Pi (represented by the Greek letter π) is an irrational number representing the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle that mathematicians, architects, engineers, and scientists use in calculations. Although the decimal digits of π continue randomly forever, the number is commonly rounded to 3.14, making March 14 the appropriate day to celebrate the number.
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) and Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), introduced the bipartisan GI Education Benefits Fairness Act, H.R. 1718. This legislation would align definitions of an eligible child in the Veterans Administration and Department of Defense for the purposes of the education benefit transfer. Currently, veterans and service members receive education benefits that they can transfer to their children, but a discrepancy in the definitions across agencies has led to the denial of this benefit to military families.
Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) issued a statement in support of the Equality Act introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives today:
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) issued the following statement on the Trump Administration's proposed budget for fiscal year 2020:
Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) issued a statement after the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1, the For the People Act:
Durbin, Duckworth, Foster, Underwood also press FBI to immediately conduct a review to ensure records of felony and domestic violence misdemeanor convictions are being appropriately shared across FBI databases