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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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Jul 17, 2023

Thank you, Chairman Barr, thank you to our witnesses for being here today, and thank you to our regulators for appropriately and thoughtfully responding to the changing risk profiles of our financial systems.

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Jul 17, 2023

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you to our witnesses.

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Jul 12, 2023

Even the, 'Ebenezer Scrooge investor,' needs information about the effect of global warming on earnings per share.

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Jul 12, 2023

If we don't provide them with the information they want, many of them will invest in European companies that do provide that information.

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Jul 12, 2023

What would this mean in the context of running a political campaign? What if we said that any contribution of under $2,000 cannot be accepted by a campaign?

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Jul 12, 2023

We are told that these considerations are fringe or immaterial, and there are those who say that it is material only if it is 5 percent of earnings per share.

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Jun 20, 2023

We on this committee remain committed to alleviating the financial stress on everyday Americans to pay rent and get food on the table.

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Jun 20, 2023

In the wake of what seemed to be endless novel problems and disruption, I believe the Fed and Congress have done a reasonable job given the cards that we have been dealt.

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Jun 12, 2023

Now, on Ukraine, you mentioned the importance of anti-corruption reforms.

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Jun 12, 2023

But it is still a struggle. If you look at all the money we attempted to inject into Afghanistan, and it just disappeared in corruption.

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Jun 12, 2023

Yes, I understand. It just seems like there may be an acceptable bargain here that, yes, we will provide a tremendous amount of assistance for those who are willing to go back to Ukraine and rebuild the country.

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Jun 12, 2023

In regards to the debt limit, there has been some uncertainty expressed as to how the exact language of the debt limit law applies to the different forms of debt...

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Jun 5, 2023

the ultimate solution to this is just to get rid of the debt limit. This is a ridiculous rule that we make up for ourselves.

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Jun 5, 2023

I have introduced, along with Senators Van Hollen and Schatz, the End the Threat of Default Act, which simply repeals the debt limit.

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May 25, 2023

The obvious solution to this threat to our economy is for the U.S. to join the rest of the world and simply repeal the debt limit. For years, I have been introducing legislation to do just that. House Republicans now insist that they want…

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May 11, 2023

As Congress' physicist and computer chip designer, I rise to make this simple point, that the massive levels of UI fraud and identity fraud generally did not happen in countries that have a secure and trusted digital ID system. This is…

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Apr 17, 2023

I do believe that there should be a rough proportionality between the number of rulemakings and the number of good ideas.

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Mar 28, 2023

What we have learned is that we now have to reinforce our banking system against bank runs that can occur at the speed of the internet.

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Mar 28, 2023

This will require stronger emergency liquidity provisions to banks under attack, and it has to be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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Mar 28, 2023

I remain proud of what we did almost 13 years ago with the Dodd-Frank Act.

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Mar 28, 2023

Had we followed Congress' direction to include contingent capital in the stacks of U.S. large banks, we would have been able to resolve the SVB without hitting the Deposit Insurance Fund.

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Mar 22, 2023

we have spent billions of dollars, and at one point in a committee hearing, I asked the question, well, didn't the Taliban kind of do this experiment?

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Mar 22, 2023

we spent billions of dollars, and at one point in a committee hearing, I asked the question, well, didn't the Taliban kind of do this experiment?

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Mar 8, 2023

On rollcall No. 138 for H.R. 140, I mistakenly recorded my vote as ``aye''. As a strong supporter of unions, I oppose the Perry/Foxx amendment, and I intended to vote ``no.'' Amendment No. 6 Offered by Ms. Jackson Lee The Acting CHAIR. The…

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Mar 8, 2023

Just for the record, no one volunteered such a magic technology.

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