Bill Foster

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50

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38.0%

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Bill Foster represents Illinois's 11th District as a Democrat, physicist and Ranking Member of the Financial Institutions Subcommittee, and the only Ph.D. physicist serving in Congress.

George William Foster is the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 11th Congressional District, serving his eighth term overall (initially elected in a 2008 special election, now in the 11th District since 2012). A University of Wisconsin graduate with a physics Ph.D. from Harvard, he worked as a high-energy physicist at Fermilab for more than two decades and co-founded a theater-lighting business with his brother. He is the only physicist with a Ph.D. currently serving in Congress. Foster serves on the House Financial Services Committee (where he is ranking member of the Financial Institutions Subcommittee) and the Science, Space, and Technology Committee. He champions scientific research funding, evidence-based climate policy, and financial regulation protecting consumers and communities.