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U.S. Representative — Illinois's 11th District

Bill Foster

Democrat · Illinois

Democrat U.S. Representative for Illinois's 11th congressional district. Member of the 119th Congress in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Legislative Record

Recently sponsored bills (50 on record)

  • H.R.9902 — Federal Naming Standards Act (Introduced, Jul 23, 2026)
  • H.R.9803 — Protecting Immigrants From Legal Exploitation Act of 2026 (Introduced, Jul 21, 2026)
  • H.R.9740 — Critical Materials Processing Technology Testbed Act (Introduced, Jul 16, 2026)
  • H.R.9676 — Examining Opioid Treatment Infrastructure Act of 2026 (Introduced, Jul 14, 2026)
  • H.R.9675 — Expanding Opportunities for Recovery Act of 2026 (Introduced, Jul 14, 2026)
  • H.R.9463 — National Fab Lab Network Act of 2026 (Introduced, Jun 25, 2026)
  • H.R.9462 — Investor Choice Act of 2026 (Introduced, Jun 25, 2026)
  • H.R.9272 — Parent PLUS Loan Fairness and Responsibility Act of 2026 (Introduced, Jun 11, 2026)

Recent floor votes (100 on record)

  • Voted Nay on H.R.8884 — Removing Barriers to Work for Disabled Americans Act (Passed, Jul 23, 2026)
  • Voted Yea on H.Con.Res.89 — Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran (Passed, Jul 23, 2026)
  • Voted Nay on H.Con.Res.113 — Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2027 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2028 through 2036 (Passed, Jul 22, 2026)
  • Voted Nay on H.R.7008 — Stop Insider Trading Act (Passed, Jul 22, 2026)
  • Voted Yea on H.R.7008 — Stop Insider Trading Act (Failed, Jul 22, 2026)
  • Voted Nay on H.R.8800 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 (Passed, Jul 22, 2026)
  • Voted Yea on H.R.8800 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 (Failed, Jul 22, 2026)
  • Voted No on H.R.8800 — On Agreeing to the Amendment (Failed, Jul 22, 2026)

Recently cosponsored bills (12 on record)

  • H.R.9941 — Right to IVF Act of 2026 (Introduced, Jul 23, 2026)
  • H.R.305 — One School, One Nurse Act of 2025 (Introduced, Jul 21, 2026)
  • H.R.3569 — Fit to Serve Act (Introduced, Jul 20, 2026)
  • H.R.5283 — Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act (Introduced, May 19, 2026)
  • H.R.8831 — Protecting Our Democracy Act (Introduced, May 14, 2026)
  • H.R.4253 — Expanding Access to Mental Health Services in Schools Act of 2025 (Introduced, May 12, 2026)
  • H.R.4382 — America’s Olympic and Paralympic Games Commemorative Coins Act (Introduced, Jul 23, 2025)
  • H.R.4689 — To name the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Bloomington, Illinois, as the "Andrew Jackson Smith Medal of Honor Department of Veterans Affairs Clinic". (Introduced, Jul 23, 2025)

Voting analysis

Bill Foster is ranking member on financial institutions, and among his filings is a disapproval resolution aimed at the consumer bureau's withdrawal of a rule on name-only matching in credit reports. Name-only matching is the practice of attaching a record to a person because the names are similar enough — the mechanism by which people acquire other people's debts and arrest records.

The Californian who leads the minority on the full Financial Services Committee has a page here too, and she filed the same species of resolution against the same bureau on an adjacent credit reporting rule. Two members of one committee using a deregulatory instrument in reverse is a deliberate strategy rather than a coincidence.

286
Bills sponsored
2613
Bills cosponsored

Of the 50 most recent of those, 50 currently sit at Introduced.

Sponsored bills carry the Congressional Research Service's own subject classification. Bill Foster's cluster into: Finance and Financial Sector (10), Immigration (7), Health (6), Education (5), Government Operations and Politics (4), Science, Technology, Communications (4).

Naming and matching

Two more of his bills belong to the same technical family: a federal naming standards act, and an autofill measure. Records that attach to the right person, forms that fill themselves in correctly — these are identity-plumbing bills, and there are three of them on a list of five. The other two cover legal exploitation of immigrants and a testbed for critical materials processing.

Where he broke ranks

Five crossings and one amendment vote. He supported a main street economic bill, cashless bail reporting, fuel retailing, a measure on American property held abroad, and the consolidated appropriations act — the last putting him with the minority of Democrats here who backed the year's spending package.

2.8%
Votes against the Democrat majority
218
Roll calls where a party majority formed
125 of 212
Rank among House Democrats, most defections first
All 6 roll calls where Bill Foster voted against the House Democrat majority.
Roll callDateOutcomeTheir vote
H.R.6955
Main Street Act
On Passage · roll call 271		Jul 21, 2026PassedYea (party: Nay)
H.R.8595
On Agreeing to the Amendment
roll call 243		Jul 15, 2026FailedNo (party: Yea)
H.R.5625
Cashless Bail Reporting Act
On Passage · roll call 171		May 14, 2026PassedYea (party: Nay)
H.R.1346
Nationwide Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act
On Passage · roll call 164		May 13, 2026PassedYea (party: Nay)
H.R.7084
Defending American Property Abroad Act
On Passage · roll call 105		Mar 27, 2026PassedYea (party: Nay)
H.R.7148
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026
On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendments · roll call 53		Feb 3, 2026PassedYea (party: Nay)

Below the Illinois Democrats

Illinois's Democratic House group averages a higher rate than his own.

Among the 14 Democrats in the Illinois delegation, the average rate of voting against the party majority is 3.4%. Bill Foster is below that average at 2.8%.

Tenure and attendance

Nine terms, beginning late in the two-thousands, and he is almost always there.

First elected in 2008, now serving across 9 terms. Bill Foster falls in the veteran cohort.

0.9%
Roll calls recorded as not voting
220
Roll calls eligible to vote on
2
Recorded as not voting

By the numbers

In the 119th Congress, Bill Foster has 286 bills sponsored, 2613 cosponsored, 100 recent floor votes recorded.

Committee assignments

  • House Committee on Financial Services
  • House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
  • House Committee on Financial Services: Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence
  • House Committee on Financial Services: Financial Institutions (Ranking Member)
  • House Committee on Financial Services: National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions

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