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Rep. Bill Foster wins another term in Congress representing far west, northwest suburbs
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Rep. Bill Foster won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Illinois on Tuesday. Foster, a physicist and businessman, defeated Republican Jerry Evans. Foster was first elected to Congress in 2008 in a special election to replace former U.S. House Speaker Denny Hastert, a Republican who held the seat for two decades. […]
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Is The Autoworkers Union Endorsing Foster or Rashid in the 11th District? It Depends Who You Ask
Just weeks after members of a local labor union for automobile factory workers first appeared in a commercial supporting U.S. Rep. Bill Foster’s reelection campaign, a multistate office of the same union has endorsed the Naperville Democrat’s challenger in their party’s primary for the 11th District seat. Even though laborers with UAW Local 1268 — […]
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Bill Foster, A Particle Physicist-Turned-Congressman, On Why He’s Worried About Artificial General Intelligence
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 […]
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Foster Earns “A” Rating for Fighting to Get Big Money Out of Politics, Protect the Right to Vote
Naperville, IL – Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) released the following statement after earning an “A” on the 2024 End Citizens United // Let America Vote Action Fund legislative scorecard, which grades Members of Congress on their support for voting rights and anti-corruption measures Congress has considered in the past year and a half: “I am proud to receive an […]
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