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U.S. Representative, Illinois 11th district · Democrat

Bill Foster

57 statements indexed, set against 676 recorded votes.

676 recorded votes

  • Voted for30144.5%
  • Voted against36654.1%
  • Did not vote40.6%
98.7%
of the votes they could cast
57
statements indexed
2,307
words on the floor

Turned up for 98.7% of the votes they could have cast, above the middle of the House, which is 97.5%.

In plain English

Foster voted 99 times out of every 100 they could. That is more than the middle of the House, which is 98.

They vote the same way as Gerald E. Connolly more than anyone else. The two agreed 99 times out of 100.

Across the aisle they line up most with James C. Moylan. They agreed 68 times out of 100.

The Record prints their remarks under 4 headings more than once. The list below names them.

First took office
March 8, 2008
Terms served
9 terms in the House
Current term
January 3, 2025 to January 3, 2027
Born
October 7, 1955

Sources: Clerk of the House and congress-legislators.

What They Spoke On

The expiration of a nuclear arms treaty leads Foster's indexed remarks at eight, with the risk of nuclear conflict accounting for two more. Tariffs follow at three, then a heading on harm caused by the administration. The rest are single remarks, several recognizing businesses in Illinois.

The business the Congressional Record printed their remarks under, counted, with the chamber's own procedure left out. It is what was before the chamber, which is not always what the member was addressing.

What Was Said, and What Was Done

57 statements quoted from the Congressional Record and set against Bill Foster’s votes. The most recent are below, one from each item of business, each linking to what it is set against.

All 57 statements, with a search →

Counted from the record

What Their Votes Add Up To

Measures that reached a final vote, grouped by subject. A yes here means pass the thing, which is why the count leaves out motions to recommit, to table and to proceed: on those a no can be support. Which subject a measure belongs to is this site's reading, and every measure in every subject is listed. A subject below links to its own measures.

Voting With Their Party

On the 471 votes this Congress where a majority of Democrats took one side and a majority of Republicans took the other, Bill Foster voted on 468 and was with the Democrat majority on 453 of them.

468 party line votes cast

  • With their party45396.8%
  • Against their party153.2%

Votes Against Their Own Party

Who They Vote With

In Their Own Party

Of the votes both took part in.

Voting Across the Aisle

The record itself

Where the Words Are

The Congressional Record marks Bill Foster as speaking in 50 items of business across 32 sitting days of this Congress.

Many of those appearances are procedural: yielding time, a request to revise and extend, a call for the yeas and nays. The count comes from the Record's own speaker tagging, which is not complete, so a member may have spoken more often than it shows.

The eight most recent, each linking to that day's Record at govinfo.

Every Recorded Vote

All 676 recorded votes of the 119th Congress in which the Clerk of the House lists Bill Foster. The most recent 4 below, each linking to the official record of that vote.

All 676 recorded votes, newest first →

Elsewhere in the Record

The other Illinois representatives in this Congress: Bradley Scott Schneider and Mike Bost.

How these records are gathered, and what they leave out, is set out on the Promise Tracker.