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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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Mar 13, 2018

Distributive ledger technology has tremendous promise and the value of a non-falsifiable ledger will have broad applicability to financial and non-financial transactions.

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Mar 6, 2018

there was a letter from a long list of Nobel Prize winners just focusing on how the United States should lead

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Mar 6, 2018

Thank you for your service. I know it's--you know, it's tough.

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Mar 5, 2018

I think this will be tremendously damaging, including to NIF.

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Mar 5, 2018

We're talking about spending, you know, 1/10,000 of the increase in, you know, the U.S. wealth.

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Mar 5, 2018

Since the economic recovery started, house--the net worth of Americans has gone up by $45 trillion.

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Feb 26, 2018

At some point, I think everyone should step back.

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Feb 26, 2018

I just want to encourage you that there is a bipartisan consensus that could be assembled to permanently get rid of it.

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Feb 26, 2018

Over time, both parties have been guilty of abusing and weaponizing the debt limit.

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Feb 15, 2018

I would just like to answer by saying that my goal in this amendment has nothing to do with the plaintiff's bar. It has to do with getting the problems fixed without going to court. Unfortunately, I think without at least the threat of…

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Feb 15, 2018

Since the start of the debate on this legislation, I have been laser-focused on getting the problems with ADA compliance actually fixed. The problems of drive-by lawsuits have hit my district, and abusive demand letters are a problem…

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Feb 14, 2018

My amendment clarifies that this bill is only intended to apply to the source code underpinning algorithmic trading rather than any computer code that exists anywhere in the enterprise. The algorithmic source code at a trading firm are its…

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Feb 14, 2018

I would just like to simply reiterate that it should be the actions in the market that are the first indications that the regulators should have a look at, and when they see suspicious activity in the market, that is the time to get the…

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Feb 14, 2018

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: Page 3, line 4, strike ``source code, including''. Page 3, line 6, insert ``algorithmic trading''…

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Feb 5, 2018

I have long viewed that the failure of free trade deals to address currency manipulation was probably their most significant shortcoming and the major reason I haven't supported them.

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Feb 5, 2018

The reaction to a default, a potential default, has been huge.

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Feb 5, 2018

I did not support the debt limit as a mechanism for controlling spending, which is something I agree.

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Feb 5, 2018

During the Obama recovery the stock market tripled, household net worth nearly doubled, unemployment was cut in half, trade deficits were reduced, and inflation was kept low.

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Feb 5, 2018

We have been calling it out for decades, all right? Calling it out, jawboning doesn't work.

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Feb 5, 2018

I think this is--actually, it really comes from the Peterson Institute, the thought behind it. And when I saw this, I just thought this is something we can and should do.

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Jan 29, 2018

Thanks also for your commitment to complete the construction of the LBNF DUNE neutrino initiative at Fermilab.

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Jan 29, 2018

Which will be the world leader and should reclaim, you know, something in an area where frankly it's under threat from China.

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Jan 29, 2018

I was really struck with his genuine enthusiasm, you know, for the science they do and his willingness to advocate for the science program.

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Jan 29, 2018

I was impressed actually by the bipartisan support for advanced battery development.

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Jan 29, 2018

This is crucial to, you know, the continuing development there.

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