Bill Foster
Democrat · IL-11 · U.S. House
IL-11 — U.S. House
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Bio
George William Foster is an American businessman, physicist, and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Illinois's 11th congressional district since 2013. He was the U.S. representative for Illinois's 14th congressional district from 2008 to 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 16.5 years · not continuous, returned 2013
- First took office
- 2008 (9 terms)
- Seniority
- 77 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 71
- Huntley, IL · 630-585-7672
- Aurora, IL · 630-585-7672
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $11.0M – $31.8M
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $11.0M – $31.8M
- Since 2019
- +$6.3M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 41 assets reported
Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Bill Foster's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Bill Foster (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Fostersits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Committees
- House Committee on Financial Servicescenter · 53 members
- House Committee on Science, Space, and Technologycenter · 40 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Foster's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
WH Council of Economic Advisers Chair Christopher Phelan, Presidential adviser Peter Navarro, FERC Chair Laura Swett, Sens. Rounds and Gallego, Southern Company CEO Chris Womack, Reps. Adrian Smith, Beth Van Duyne, April Delaney, Bill Foster, and Janelle Bynum, ExIm's John Jovanovic and more to headline American Growth Summit tomorrow, Tuesday, September 29 in Washington, D.C.WASHINGTON, Sept. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- A powerhouse lineup of leaders from the administration, US Congress, and American business and civil society will speak at a day-long convening on the evolving topography of America's economic interests hosted by Wid…
PRNewswire · September 28, 2026
Student Loan Forgiveness Would Get Easier, Quicker for Many Under New BillA newly introduced bipartisan bill in Congress would make it significantly easier for many teachers, nurses and first responders to qualify for federal student loan forgiveness. The Public Service Loan Forgiveness Inclusion Act of 2026 was introduced in the H…
Biztoc.com · September 11, 2026
Bill FosterThe congressional representative and physicist talks about the search for scientific truth and the role of immigrants in the U.S. scientific enterprise
Scientific American · June 16, 2026
This Democrat Is Offering Trump a Blueprint to Land an Iran Nuclear Deal (Joe Gould/NOTUS)Joe Gould / NOTUS: This Democrat Is Offering Trump a Blueprint to Land an Iran Nuclear Deal — The only physicist in Congress argues Iran should get limited uranium enrichment under strict controls. — Copy — Rep. Bill Foster, an Illinois Democrat and the …
Memeorandum.com · April 27, 2026
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