we must ensure that cities and states have the resources they need to carry out, you know, the basic steps to protect the health of voters and election workers.
Bill Foster
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Bill Foster is an American businessman and politician currently serving as the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 11th congressional district, a position he has held since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Foster has focused on issues such as science, technology, and economic development during his tenure in Congress. He has a background in physics and has worked in the private sector, including founding a successful technology company.
Voter suppression is a problem that is orders-of-magnitude larger than any concerns over potentially fraudulent voting.
we strongly urge Congress to provide that $3.6 billion so that no state can point to the lack of resources as a reason for disenfranchising voters this season.
the job crisis that has caused--been caused by the administration's continuing failure to control the coronavirus is, unfortunately, far from over.
I would like to enter into the record a recent Wall Street Journal article on how the expiration of the $600 of expanded unemployment assistance has harmed Americans families.
this is not only wrong, Secretary Mnuchin, it is counterproductive if your goal is to actually fix the economy.
the failure to remove these benefits are causing our country to lose, and I quote, "about one years' worth of economic growth."
renewing unemployment insurance is important to, quote, "increase aggregate demand and boost spending in the economy."
Also thank you, Mr. Secretary, for announcing yet another executive order. I'd like to talk about just how well some of your previous executive orders are working.
As a scientist, I think it's important to--for people to remember that just because people wish that something were true does not mean that science says it will be true.
I have an amendment at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Strike section 510 of division F. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 1067, the…
I'd like to second the comments of my colleague, Representative Dr. Mark Green.
I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Kelly), my colleague, for cosponsoring this bipartisan amendment so that we can move our healthcare system into the 21st century, save money, and, most importantly, save lives. Madam Speaker…
This bipartisan amendment offered by Mr. Kelly and me and supported, also, by Mr. Schweikert and Dr. Bera, would strike section 510, which bans HHS from adopting standards for a unique patient identifier that would allow patients to be…
When a great scientific breakthrough reaches the public, that the proper credit is given, not to just those who show up and claim credit at press conferences.
Technology will play a critical role in combatting human trafficking in the future.
The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified the need for all stakeholders to work together in this fight.
I would also like to applaud the work of the Trump Administration in strengthening the Federal responsiveness to human trafficking.
I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. My amendment directs the State Department to use $10 million from the NADR account to fund a major science facility in Jordan called SESAME, or the Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and…
I spent probably 2 hours looking at those maps just almost trembling in rage at the fact that we could see, you know, maybe almost a century later the fingerprints of the redlining.
I was very interested to see that Representative Huizenga's proposal is effectively to subsidize labor.
I support your notion that community planning is a critical thing but also making sure that there are resources for community-based planning.
Even before the COVID crisis, we found that workers, particularly unskilled workers, were having a harder and harder time competing with machines for their jobs.





