Member of Congress · 119th Congress
Bill Foster
Bill Foster is a Democratic U.S. representative from Illinois, in Congress since 2008, who voted with most Democrats on 98% of the 119th Congress’s yes/no votes and has had 2 bills become law since 2013.
How we count: “Broke with party” is a yes/no roll call where the member voted against most of their own party on that vote (party as recorded; even splits not counted). “Pork: own share” splits each earmark shared by several members evenly among them.
5 most recent votes
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass — Retire through Ownership ActSep 16, 2026 · Passed
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended — Water Resources Development Act of 2026Sep 16, 2026 · Passed
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended — Ratepayer Protection ActSep 16, 2026 · Passed
- NayOn Passage — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule issued by the Environmental Protection…Sep 16, 2026 · Passed
- NayOn Passage — PROOF ActSep 16, 2026 · Passed
5 most recent bills
- H.R. 10298 Public Service Loan Forgiveness Inclusion Act of 2026Sep 4, 2026 · Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
- H.R. 10230 Strengthening Oversight for the Financial Sector Act of 2026Sep 2, 2026 · Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
- H.R. 9902 Federal Naming Standards ActJul 23, 2026 · Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be…
- H.R. 9803 Protecting Immigrants From Legal Exploitation Act of 2026Jul 21, 2026 · Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
- H.R. 9740 Critical Materials Processing Technology Testbed ActJul 16, 2026 · Referred to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 5278 (111th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 405 West Second Street in Dixon, Illinois, as the "President Ronald W. Reagan Post…Became law
- H.R. 4960 (114th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 525 N Broadway in Aurora, Illinois, as the "Kenneth M. Christy Post Office Building".Became law
- H.R. 700 (117th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 303 East Mississippi Avenue in Elwood, Illinois, as the "Lawrence M. 'Larry' Walsh…Became law
- H.R. 3682 (119th) Financial Stability Oversight Council Improvement Act of 2025Passed a chamber
- H.R. 4982 (114th) Examining Opioid Treatment Infrastructure Act of 2016Passed a chamber
- H.Res. 862 (111th) Congratulating the staff, students, and faculty at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy for winning the 2009 Star Innovator in the Intel Schools of…Passed a chamber
- H.Res. 327 (116th) Encouraging greater public-private sector collaboration to promote financial literacy for students and young adults.Passed a chamber
- H.Res. 1118 (110th) Honoring the life and achievements of John Archibald Wheeler and expressing condolences on his passing.Passed a chamber
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Committees
- House Committee on Financial ServicesDigital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence, Financial Institutions, National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions
- House Committee on Science, Space, and TechnologyNo subcommittees
Elections Rep. Foster has won
Rep. Foster has won 8 U.S. House elections (2008–2024). Of the contested races, margins ran from 6.9 to 27.7 points.
Full election history for this seat →
Source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. House V15 / U.S. Senate V8 (CC0), retrieved 2026-10-18; winners matched to member records by seat and term. Results run through the 2024 elections; nothing from 2026 is shown until it is certified. A margin is a fact about one election, never a score of how well a member represents anyone, and PORKER does not rank members by it.
How has Illinois’s 11th district done while Rep. Foster served?
2013 to 2021 in IL-11: typical household income was up 7% after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was about the same, and the share of workers looking for a job was down 1.8 points.
Each mini chart has its own scale, fitted to its lines (it does not start at zero), so compare the numbers, not the heights. Teal = district, oxblood = state, grey = U.S.
While they served, not because of them. This shows what happened in Illinois’s 11th district during Foster’s time representing it (2013 to now). It does not say what the member did or caused. It is not a score, and PORKER never ranks members on it.
Only one set of district lines is shown. IL-11 was redrawn in 2012 and again in 2022, and a redrawn district is a different place. So this card shows only the longest stretch on the same lines during the term, 2013 to 2021 (no 2020 yearly estimate), not the full 2013 to now.
Local offices
Offices in the district or state, as listed in a public-domain community file. The Washington office is in the Contact section above.
- Huntley office11187 E Dundee Rd, Suite 101, Huntley, IL 60142
Hours: By appointment only
Phone 630-585-7672 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap) - Aurora office2000 W. Galena Blvd, Suite 303, Aurora, IL 60506
Phone 630-585-7672 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap)
Evidence
- File
- legislators-district-offices-2026-09-24-8d698e92.json, entries F000454-huntley, F000454-aurora (2 offices)
- Published at
- https://unitedstates.github.io/congress-legislators/legislators-district-offices.json
- File date
- September 24, 2026 (server “last modified”)
- Retrieved by PORKER
- October 16, 2026
- File SHA-256
8d698e92f8ebae3bdd387bfef239584164160e59d444ba1cbff46f32aa450f59- Licence
- CC0 1.0 (public domain)
Read this first. This list is kept up by volunteers and may be out of date. Confirm hours and addresses on the member’s official site, foster.house.gov.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
119th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 38 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 38 | Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them → |
| With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement | 29 | See the 29 → |
| With a CBO cost estimate listed | 0 | None listed |
| With a committee report listed | 1 | See the 1 → |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 119th Congress, read from the stored Congress.gov bill records
- Fields
- cboCostEstimates, committeeReports, constitutionalAuthorityStatementText, notes
- PORKER copy refreshed
- October 26, 2026 (nightly)
Read this first. These are counts of records Congress.gov lists. Many bills never get a CBO estimate or a report, so a zero is not a mark against a member. We never show this as a score.
Data as of Oct 26, 2026 (member stats) · latest recorded House vote Sep 16, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.