Bill Foster

U.S. Representative, IL-11

Democratic Illinois since Jan 3, 2025

Office record: unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0

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Issue areas

Derived from issue-tagged bills they sponsored and stated positions — each links to the underlying record. AI-derived tags

Education 2 Banking & Finance 1 Defense & Military 1 Environment & Energy 1 Technology & Privacy 1

Offices & terms

Office	Party	From	To	Source
U.S. Representative, IL-11 current Illinois	Democratic	Jan 3, 2025	Jan 3, 2027	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
US House District IL-11 United States	Democratic	Jan 3, 2023	Jan 3, 2025	openstates/people CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, IL-11 Illinois	Democratic	Jan 3, 2023	Jan 3, 2025	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
US House District IL-11 United States	Democratic	Jan 3, 2021	Jan 3, 2023	openstates/people CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, IL-11 Illinois	Democratic	Jan 3, 2021	Jan 3, 2023	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, IL-11 Illinois	Democratic	Jan 3, 2019	Jan 3, 2021	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
US House District IL-11 United States	Democratic	Jan 3, 2019	Jan 3, 2021	openstates/people CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, IL-11 Illinois	Democratic	Jan 3, 2017	Jan 3, 2019	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
US House District IL-11 United States	Democratic	Jan 3, 2017	Jan 3, 2019	openstates/people CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, IL-11 Illinois	Democratic	Jan 6, 2015	Jan 3, 2017	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
US House District IL-11 United States	Democratic	Jan 6, 2015	Jan 3, 2017	openstates/people CC0-1.0
US House District IL-11 United States	Democratic	Jan 3, 2013	Jan 3, 2015	openstates/people CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, IL-11 Illinois	Democratic	Jan 3, 2013	Jan 3, 2015	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
US House District IL-14 United States	Democratic	Jan 6, 2009	Jan 3, 2011	openstates/people CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, IL-14 Illinois	Democratic	Jan 6, 2009	Jan 3, 2011	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, IL-14 Illinois	Democratic	Mar 8, 2008	Jan 3, 2009	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
US House District IL-14 United States	Democratic	Mar 8, 2008	Jan 3, 2009	openstates/people CC0-1.0

Committee assignments

House Committee on Financial Services — Financial Institutions — Ranking Member unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
House Committee on Financial Services unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
House Committee on Financial Services — Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
House Committee on Financial Services — National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0

Ideology — academic context, not a GovTally claim

DW-NOMINATE coordinates (Congress 119): economic dim. -0.238, social dim. -0.220. Voteview DW-NOMINATE Voteview-academic

Roll-call votes (583 recorded)

Vote	Position	Date	Result	Source
HR 3668 — Improving Interagency Coordination for Pipeline Reviews Act	Nay	Dec 12, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 3668 — Improving Interagency Coordination for Pipeline Reviews Act	Yea	Dec 12, 2025	Failed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 2550 — Protect America's Workforce Act	Yea	Dec 11, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HRES 432 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2550) to nullify the Executive order relating to Exclusions from Federal Labor-Management…	Yea	Dec 11, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 3898 — PERMIT Act	Nay	Dec 11, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 3898 — PERMIT Act	Yea	Dec 11, 2025	Failed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 3383 — Incentivizing New Ventures and Economic Strength Through Capital Formation Act of 2025	Yea	Dec 11, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 3383 — Incentivizing New Ventures and Economic Strength Through Capital Formation Act of 2025	Yea	Dec 11, 2025	Failed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 3383 — Incentivizing New Ventures and Economic Strength Through Capital Formation Act of 2025	Yea	Dec 11, 2025	Failed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 3383 — Incentivizing New Ventures and Economic Strength Through Capital Formation Act of 2025	Nay	Dec 11, 2025	Failed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 3638 — Electric Supply Chain Act	Yea	Dec 11, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 3628 — State Planning for Reliability and Affordability Act	Nay	Dec 11, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HRES 939 — Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States for high crimes and misdemeanors.	Present	Dec 11, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HRES 432 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2550) to nullify the Executive order relating to Exclusions from Federal Labor-Management…	Yea	Dec 10, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
S 1071 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026	Nay	Dec 10, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
S 1071 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026	Yea	Dec 10, 2025	Failed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HRES 936 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3898) to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to make targeted reforms with respect…	Nay	Dec 10, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HRES 936 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3898) to amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to make targeted reforms with respect…	Nay	Dec 10, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 1676 — Make SWAPs Efficient Act of 2025	Yea	Dec 9, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
S 356 — Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization Act of 2025	Yea	Dec 9, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 1049 — Transparency in Reporting of Adversarial Contributions to Education Act	Nay	Dec 4, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 1069 — PROTECT Our Kids Act	Nay	Dec 4, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 1005 — Combating the Lies of Authoritarians in School Systems Act	Nay	Dec 3, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 4305 — DUMP Red Tape Act	Yea	Dec 3, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 2965 — Small Business Regulatory Reduction Act of 2025	Nay	Dec 3, 2025	Passed	U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD

Campaign funding

1,013 recorded contributions totalling $2,949,226. Amounts and dates come straight from FEC filings; funding-type labels are software-classified from those filings classified — 344 of 1013 classified so far.

Funding type	Contributions	Total	Share
Big donor	268	$808,235	27%
Corporate PAC	61	$314,707	11%
Super PAC	13	$262,564	9%
Party	2	$10,000	0%
Unclassified	669	$1,553,720	53%

Largest contributions

Amount	Donor	To committee	Type	Date	Source
$62,305	—	PROJECT 218	Super PAC	Oct 18, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules
$62,305	—	PROJECT 218	Super PAC	Oct 18, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules
$30,851	—	DMFI PAC	Super PAC	Mar 12, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules
$30,851	—	DMFI PAC	Super PAC	Mar 12, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules
$23,500	—	ADVANCE LIBERTY PAC	Super PAC	Oct 29, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules
$23,500	—	ADVANCE LIBERTY PAC	Super PAC	Oct 29, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules
$12,637	BRADDOCK ROAD STRATEGIES	BILL FOSTER FOR CONGRESS	Corporate PAC	Feb 10, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$10,000	—	DMFI PAC	Super PAC	Mar 12, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules
$10,000	—	DMFI PAC	Super PAC	Mar 12, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules
$5,855	JANNEY MONTGOMERY SCOTT	BILL FOSTER FOR CONGRESS	Corporate PAC	Jun 30, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$5,788	JANNEY MONTGOMERY SCOTT	BILL FOSTER FOR CONGRESS	Corporate PAC	Nov 30, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$5,427	JANNEY MONTGOMERY SCOTT	BILL FOSTER FOR CONGRESS	Corporate PAC	Dec 31, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$5,000	INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF BOILERMAKERS CAMPAIGN ASSISTANCE FUND	BILL FOSTER FOR CONGRESS	Corporate PAC	Mar 15, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$5,000	AMERIPAC: THE FUND FOR A GREATER AMERICA	BILL FOSTER FOR CONGRESS	Corporate PAC	Mar 14, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$5,000	D.R.I.V.E. - DEMOCRAT, REPUBLICAN, INDEPENDENT VOTER EDUCATION (THE PAC OF THE INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS)	BILL FOSTER FOR CONGRESS	Corporate PAC	Sep 4, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)

Largest by amount; not the full set. FEC contributor data may not be used for commercial solicitation.