Bill Foster

His campaign website says he voted for the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2019 and will continue supporting legislation that makes it easier for Americans to vote.⁹

1. Restore and widen protections by law, such as federal approval of voting changes in places with a history of discrimination (for example, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act)
2. Keep current law, as the Supreme Court read it in 2026, without the federal approval requirement
3. Stop applying the law to how district maps are drawn

His campaign website says he supports a constitutional amendment to overturn the Citizens United decision, and lists voting for the For the People Act, which it says would require SuperPACs and dark money groups to disclose their donors.⁹

1. Limit spending by outside groups, including by amending the Constitution to overturn Citizens United
2. Keep spending unlimited but require groups to name their major donors
3. Keep current rules
4. Raise or remove limits on donations to candidates and parties

His campaign website says he supports and has voted for a robust public option, and that Americans should have a choice between private insurance and a public option.¹⁰

1. One government plan for everyone (Medicare for All)
2. Add a government plan that anyone can choose to buy
3. Keep the current mix of private and public coverage, including the ACA
4. Fewer federal insurance rules and more private plan choices, with aid paid to individuals

His campaign website says the next steps for the health care system include further expanding eligibility and coverage for Medicaid, which he says he has voted for repeatedly.¹⁰

His campaign website says there is no reason Americans should be forced to pay far more than people in other countries for the same medication.¹⁰

His campaign website says he was proud to vote for the Inflation Reduction Act, which began negotiating lower drug prices.¹⁰

His campaign website says he is committed to passing legislation to codify the protections of Roe v. Wade on a national scale.¹¹

1. Legal only to save the pregnant woman's life
2. Legal only in cases of rape or incest, or to save the woman's life
3. Legal early in pregnancy only, up to a limit such as 6, 12 or 15 weeks
4. Legal until about 24 weeks, as under Roe v. Wade, and later to protect the woman's life or health
5. Legal at every stage, with no limit based on weeks of pregnancy

His campaign website says he is committed to codifying the protections of Roe v. Wade nationally, and that the Women's Health Protection Act, which he helped pass in the House, would enshrine access to safe abortion care and reproductive health care into federal law.¹¹

1. A national law making abortion legal in every state, at least until viability, as under Roe v. Wade
2. Leave abortion law to each state
3. A national law limiting abortion (for example, after 15 weeks of pregnancy)

His campaign website says he voted for the Right to Contraception Act, which it says would place the right to access and use contraception into federal law.¹¹

His campaign website says he supports comprehensive immigration reform along the lines of the 2013 Senate bill, which provided a strict but fair pathway to citizenship for long-time undocumented residents who pass a criminal background check, pay back taxes and pay a modest fine, and that he voted for the DREAM Act in 2010 and 2019.¹²

1. No new legal status, including for people brought here as children
2. Legal status only for people brought here as children, such as DACA recipients
3. Legal status, but not citizenship, for most who pass background checks and pay a fine
4. A path to citizenship for most who meet requirements such as background checks

His campaign website says he supports a reform framework, based on the 2013 Senate bill, that makes realistic adjustments to the number of worker visas in various categories.¹²

His campaign website says the 2013 Senate bill whose framework he supports would have followed those visa adjustments with strong E-Verify enforcement so that only people here legally could be hired.¹²

His campaign website says he fought the Trump administration's tariffs as misguided policy, and says the country should stand up against abusive trade practices such as dumping without alienating allies.¹³

His campaign website says poorly conceived and badly executed trade agreements should be stopped, and that the Trump proposal to upgrade NAFTA would do little to enforce fair labor standards in Mexico and would increase prescription drug prices.¹³

His campaign website says he is proud to have helped craft the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, which it says strengthens supervision of large banks and created an agency to protect consumers, and that thoughtful regulation is essential to stability.¹⁴

His campaign website says he is proud to have been part of efforts to maintain the independence of the Federal Reserve.¹⁴

1. Give the president more say over interest rates and Fed leadership
2. Keep rate decisions independent but add audits or more oversight by Congress
3. Keep the Fed's current independence

His campaign website says tax incentives to move jobs offshore should be dismantled, and that he has strongly supported making the research and development tax credit permanent.^13,15

His campaign website says there is no imminent debt crisis in the United States and that lawmakers can protect families' household wealth in a crisis only by providing adequate fiscal stimulus.¹⁶

His campaign website says the country needs universal background checks for all gun buyers, whether buying from a store, a dealer, at a gun show or on the internet, and that he voted for H.R. 8 and H.R. 1112.¹⁷

1. Require checks for all gun sales, including private sales (with exceptions such as gifts between family members)
2. Require checks for private sales at gun shows and online, but not other private sales
3. Keep current law, with checks required only for sales by licensed dealers

His campaign website says he supports a ban on assault weapons designed to kill as many people as possible in a short amount of time.¹⁷

1. Ban the sale of these rifles
2. Keep sales legal, with added limits such as a minimum buying age of 21
3. No bans or added limits on these rifles

His campaign website says he supports the e-Gun Violence Restraining Order Act, which it says provides tools to family members to prevent a person they fear is a danger to themselves or others from possessing a gun.¹⁷

1. Adopt more red flag laws, including a national one
2. Leave the choice to each state
3. Repeal existing red flag laws and adopt no new ones

His campaign website says he supports extending the ethanol and biodiesel tax credits and raising the ethanol blend limit for cars from 10 percent to 15 percent.¹⁸

1. Expand biofuel use, such as by allowing E15 sales all year
2. Keep the current requirements
3. Lower the requirements or end the Renewable Fuel Standard

His campaign website says nuclear power can be made safe, that the costs of nuclear power compared with other low-carbon sources need to be better understood, and that in the longer term the country should press ahead with advanced technologies such as small modular reactors and fusion.¹⁸

His campaign website says sensible and achievable federal efficiency standards sped the transition to LED lighting, and that energy efficiency upgrades that pay for themselves over their lifetime should be made immediately.¹⁸

His campaign website says he will fight efforts to gut the U.S. Department of Education.¹⁹

1. Close the department and move or end its programs
2. Shrink it and give states more control over federal school money
3. Keep the department and its programs, or expand it

His campaign website lists introducing the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Inclusion Act to assist people who forgo potentially lucrative careers to serve the public good.¹⁹

1. Narrow or end existing forgiveness programs, such as Public Service Loan Forgiveness
2. Keep current forgiveness programs, with no new cancellation
3. Add targeted relief, such as more forgiveness for public service workers or through income-based repayment
4. Broad cancellation of student debt