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Capitol: 202.225.3515 FAX: 202.225.9420 District: 630.585.7672
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Representative
Room 2366 RHOB- Rayburn House Office Building 50 Independence Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20515-1311
Residence: Naperville, IL
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Elected: 2012 Next Election: 2022 | Spouse: Aesook Byon DOB: 10/7/1955 |
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Co-Chair | Congressional Research and Development Caucus | Co-Chair | Congressional Nuclear Security Caucus | Chairman | House Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight | Co-Chair | House Science and National Labs Caucus | Chairman | Congressional Payer State Caucus | Co-Chair | Congressional Inventions Caucus | Co-Chair | Congressional Blockchain Caucus | Co-Chair | Entrepreneurship Caucus | FC Member | Congressional Fusion Caucus | FC Member | United Solutions Caucus | FC Member | Congressional Transparency Caucus | Member | House Subcommittee on Research and Technology | Member | House Select Investigative Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis | Member | House Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship and Capital Markets | Member | House Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions | FC Member | German-American Caucus | FC Member | Congressional Hellenic-Israel Alliance Caucus | FC Member | Congressional Automotive Caucus | FC Member | Congressional Planetary Science Caucus | FC Member | Congressional Career and Technical Education Caucus (CTE) | FC Member | Friends of a Free, Democratic, and Stable Syria Caucus | Member | House Committee on Financial Services | Member | House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology | FC Member | Congressional Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Caucus (COPD) | FC Member | U.S.-Japan Caucus | FC Member | Congressional Social Work Caucus | FC Member | Congressional Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Caucus (STEM Caucus) | FC Member | House General Aviation Caucus | FC Member | House Manufacturing Caucus | FC Member | Congressional Addiction, Treatment and Recovery Caucus (ATR) | FC Member | Congressional Labor and Working Families Caucus | FC Member | Congressional Fire Services Caucus | FC Member | Congressional Caucus for Competitiveness in Entertainment Technology (E-Tech Caucus) | FC Member | Congressional Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Caucus | FC Member | Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth | FC Member | Bipartisan Congressional Task Force on Alzheimer's Disease | FC Member | House Small Brewers Caucus | FC Member | Congressional Animal Protection Caucus | FC Member | Congressional Diabetes Caucus | FC Member | Expand Social Security Caucus (House) | FC Member | New Democrat Coalition (NDC) | FC Member | Congressional Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBTQ+) Equality Caucus |
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BioCongressman Bill Foster is a scientist and businessman representing the 11th Congressional District of Illinois. He previously served in Congress from March 2008 until January 2011 as the Representative of 14th Congressional District of Illinois. He is the only PhD physicist in Congress.
Bill serves on the House Committee on Financial Services, a position he also held in the 110th, 111th, 113th, 114th, and 115th Congresses. As a member of the Financial Services Committee, he advocates for consumer protection and a fair economy for everyone. In response to the Great Recession, he participated in the creation of several important reforms in the financial services and housing sectors, most notably the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. In addition, Bill serves as chairman of the Financial Services Committee's Task Force on Artificial Intelligence.
He also serves on the Science, Space, and Technology Committee where he has fought for evidence-based policies and forward-thinking approaches to some of our country's most pressing issues, including climate change and energy innovation. He also champions sustained federal funding for scientific research. Moreover, Bill serves as the chairman of the Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee, which is empowered to investigative and oversee all matters concerning non-defense federal research.
Bill's business career began at age 19 when he and his younger brother co-founded Electronic Theatre Controls, Inc., a company that now manufactures over half of the theater lighting equipment in the United States.
Before he became a Member of Congress, Bill worked as a high-energy physicist and particle accelerator designer at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab). He was a member of the team that discovered the top quark, the heaviest known form of matter. He also led the teams that designed and built several scientific facilities and detectors still in use today, including the Recycler Ring, the latest of Fermilab's giant particle accelerators.
Bill lives in Naperville with his wife Aesook, who is also a physicist. Bill has two grown children, Billy and Christine. Bill's father was a civil rights lawyer who wrote much of the enforcement language behind the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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