WASHINGTON, May 9 -- Rep. Bill Foster, D-Illinois, issued the following news release:

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Foster Leads over 100 Colleagues in Demanding Answers on National Science Foundation Funding Freeze

Washington, DC - Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL), Congress' only PhD physicist, led 112 Members of Congress in expressing their concern with the Trump Administration's directive for the National Science Foundation to freeze all grant funding.