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U.S. Representative · Illinois 11th District
Bill Foster
DemocratDistrict D+6119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score54#140 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.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 359 Cost-Share Accountability Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 452 Miracle on Ice Congressional Gold Medal Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 842 Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 909 Crime Victims Fund Stabilization Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 979 AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act of 2025
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, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 101–150 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 4707To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1019 Avenue H in Fort Madison, Iowa, as the "Martin L. Graber Post Office".Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | No recorded vote | 59
| Middle |