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DemocratBill Foster
U.S. Representative · Illinois
Illinois's 11th district
U.S. Representative from Illinois
0 tracked promises
How they won their seat
Bill Foster won the 2024 U.S. House election in Illinois (District 11) with 55.6% of the vote (199,825 votes).
- Bill Foster · Democrat55.6%199,825
- Jerry Evans · Republican44.4%159,630
- 1 Other Candidate0.1%229
Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.
Inferred legislative agendas
Bill Foster's legislative record includes sponsorship of bills related to financial services, technology, and education, including the 'Expanding Opportunities for Recovery Act of 2026' and the 'Know Your Rights Act'. His committee memberships include roles that pertain to financial institutions and technology-related issues. Focus areas (from the record): Financial Services · Technology · Education · Public Health · Innovation Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against Foster's legislative activities, making it impossible to assess alignment. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal any stated goals or intentions of the politician; There is no information on the effectiveness of the sponsored bills; The impact of campaign finance contributions on legislative behavior is not discernible. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Bill Foster has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.
Showing 2023–2025 term. Every tile and chart below reflects this window; some record types (e.g. roll-call votes) only have data for recent years.
Activity in office
What Bill Foster has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score.
- Votes cast
- 4
- Voted yea
- 1
- Voted nay
- 3
- Bills sponsored
- 37
- Committees
- 5
Roll-call data last updated July 20, 2026 · source: Voteview.
Monthly voting activity
- Yea
- Nay
- Total
Roll-call votes per month — most recent on file. Source: Voteview.
Vote attendance
Share of roll calls participated in — most recent votes on file. Source: Voteview.
Bills sponsored over time
Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.
Independence
How often they break with their party’s majority — neither good nor bad, just the record.
Most recent roll-call votes on file. Source: Voteview.
Bill success rate
Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.
Campaign finance over time
- Small-dollar (unitemized)$336K13%
- Large individual (itemized)$1.3M54%
- PAC / committee$809K32%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on Science, Space, and TechnologyOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Financial ServicesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Financial Services — National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial InstitutionsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Financial Services — Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial IntelligenceOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Ranking Member, House Committee on Financial Services — Financial InstitutionsOn record since Jan 2025Ranking
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
261 sponsored bills · finance on fileFacts imported directly from official government sources — shown separately from tracked promises and never folded into the Integrity Score. Each entry links to its primary source.
FEC 2026 cycle — raised $1,769,713, spent $1,043,650, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9740: To establish a Critical Materials Processing Technology Testbed Capability, and for other purposes. ↗Jul 16, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9675: Expanding Opportunities for Recovery Act of 2026 ↗Jul 14, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9676: Examining Opioid Treatment Infrastructure Act of 2026 ↗Jul 14, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9463: National Fab Lab Network Act of 2026 ↗Jun 25, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9462: Investor Choice Act of 2026 ↗Jun 25, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9272: Parent PLUS Loan Fairness and Responsibility Act of 2026 ↗Jun 11, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9144: Closing the Digital Divide for Students Act of 2026 ↗Jun 4, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9124: Know Your Rights Act ↗Jun 3, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8969: Nuclear Forensics Authority Realignment Act ↗May 21, 2026
- Sponsored HJRES 177: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection relating to the withdrawal of the rule relating to "Fair Credit Reporting; Name-Only Matching Procedures". ↗May 7, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1238: Encouraging greater public-private sector collaboration to promote financial literacy for students and young adults. ↗Apr 30, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1210: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives in support of the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) nuclear security role. ↗Apr 23, 2026
Showing the 12 most recent of 261 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 609
- Yea
- 274
- Nay
- 331
- Present
- 1
- Not voting
- 3
Full voting record
609 votes- HR9237Yea
- HR5362Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Yea
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR8595Nay
- HR1181Nay
- HR1181Yea
- HR139Yea
- HRES1423Nay
- HRES1423Nay
- HR8897Yea
- HR3106Yea
- HRES1399Yea
- HCONRES108Yea
- HRES1398Nay
- HRES1398Nay
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Stated positions
No stated positions are on record for this official yet. A stated position is what the official says they believe on an issue — a sourced claim, separate from any assessment of what they did. Know one? Add it with a link to where it was said.
Disclosure
A separate measure from the promise scorecard above. It tracks confirmed cases where this official has acted on or championed an issue that already existed when they ran, but which they did not disclose as a priority in their campaign. Each case meets a high evidence bar — three independent sources — and the score is shown alongside the Integrity Score, never merged into it. How this is measured.
No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.
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