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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.

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Sep 19, 2019

If you are stealing my intellectual property today, I might not be able to stop you because I can't get injunctive relief.

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Jul 16, 2019

There's a big NIMBY (not in my back yard) difficulty that's much worse as you approach cities, but bad probably everywhere.

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Jul 16, 2019

I would like to also thank you, as the co-Chair of the Congressional Blockchain Caucus.

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Jul 16, 2019

We are going to have to be absolutely dependent on the fact that every single wallet is in a regulatory regime that we trust, is that right?

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Jul 16, 2019

I would like to also mention cybersecurity. One of the main jobs of FSOC is to oversee cybersecurity at systemically important firms.

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Jul 16, 2019

I think there's a good chance that it's actually the, you know, one of those rare combinations of things that is going to have a chance at getting through the legislative graveyard.

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Jul 16, 2019

The obvious solution to that's to bury power lines, and that is hellishly expensive presently.

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Jul 15, 2019

Without it, the Saturn booster would have to be two times bigger or you'd need multiple of them.

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Jul 15, 2019

It would not have been possible to meet John Kennedy's goal of landing within the decade.

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Jul 11, 2019

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chair, I rise today as the only Ph.D. physicist in the U.S. Congress. During my career, I have designed and led the construction of giant particle accelerators and other nuclear equipment, led…

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Jul 10, 2019

I think if you Google my name along with Greenland, you're led to a video of a previous witness...

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Jul 10, 2019

what we don't have is a national metric which looks at the return on investment in a geographically neutral place

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Jul 9, 2019

A newly released report from the London School of Economics examined instances of legal action on climate change for a 30-year period, ending this year.

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Jun 26, 2019

FinCEN's mission is critical to our national and economic security. It is charged with safeguarding the financial system from illicit use and combating money laundering. Our amendment included in this en bloc directs FinCEN and its agency…

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Jun 25, 2019

If we can get the cost down to low Earth orbit and make it more regular, possibly through aeronautic solutions, and I think it opens up tremendous things for space exploration as well.

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Jun 25, 2019

I have expressed the opinion in this room many times that I think that NASA doesn't spend enough on potentially transformative technologies to get things into low-Earth orbit for cheap.

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Jun 24, 2019

one of the things that they have done at their synchrotron light source is to use them to directly image the molecules that are involved in opioid receptors in the brain.

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Jun 24, 2019

I thank the chair for yielding. My amendment provides direction to do everything possible to fix the indefensible disparity between States in the per capita allocation of transportation funding through the Highway Trust Fund. Under the…

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Jun 24, 2019

I think we will find a solution to the opioid epidemic that we have in this country.

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Jun 24, 2019

Congressman Ed Perlmutter will enthusiastically host a visit to the Denver area and western labs.

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Jun 24, 2019

If we start using high-enriched uranium, weapons-grade uranium in applications where it is not strictly needed... it will be a disaster for nonproliferation and national security.

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Jun 24, 2019

I'll be leading as large a congressional delegation as I can corral.

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Jun 20, 2019

I thank my colleagues for supporting en bloc No. 2, which included two of my amendments. The first amendment directs NASA to work toward the development of a low-enriched uranium space power reactor. NASA has been developing a low-enriched…

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Jun 18, 2019

Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I guess as one of those Members who did visit NETL just a few weeks ago, you know, it's just amazing.

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Jun 18, 2019

Just trying to understand the fundamental physics of combustion is a field which will have a huge benefit because, as I'm sure has been mentioned a multiple times, we're not going to stop burning fossil fuels anytime soon.

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