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U.S. Representative · Illinois 11th District
Bill Foster
DemocratDistrict D+6119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score48#163 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Bill Foster’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office2366 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-1311
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
Signals to watch
What in this member’s district, record and ideology could move them, and in which direction. Their score is the same on every bill they haven’t committed to, so these are the things to watch.Could pull them toward Republicans · 2 signals
- StrongBacks 9 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 9 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.R. 359, H.R. 452, H.R. 842, H.R. 909, H.R. 979 and 4 more.
- Medium25th most moderate of 212 House DemocratsDW-NOMINATE -0.238 vs. the House Democratic median of -0.393: 0.155 toward the Republicans (rank 25 of 212 by distance toward the Republicans).
Keeps them with Democrats · 0 signals
None of our measures place this member firmly with their party.
Bill-specific inputsVotes on similar past bills and committee seats vary by bill, so they appear in the swing-v3 scores below rather than here.
Term and election
From the congress-legislators datasetOn the ballot 2026
- Current term
- January 3, 2025 – January 3, 2027
- Next election
- November 3, 2026
- Years in office
- 18.6 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on Financial ServicesMinority · 9th in seniority
- Subcommittee on National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions
- Subcommittee on Financial InstitutionsRanking Member
- Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence
- House Committee on Science, Space, and TechnologyMinority · 18th in seniority
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
R median
Foster← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.238 is 0.16 to the right of the House Democratic median (-0.393).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Democratic average- 119th Congress0House Democratic average: 1 (n=210)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3 · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 1–50 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.Con.Res. 58Denouncing the horrors of socialism.Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | 65
| Middle |
| H.R. 788 |