First elected to Congress to replace former Speaker Dennis Hastert in a long held Republican seat, Bill Foster is the only member of Congress with a PhD in science. Rep. Foster serves on the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology where he chairs the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight.
Before entering Congress, Rep. Foster was a high-energy physicist at FermiLab where he was a member of the team that discovered the top quark.
