on the campaign trail with Obama and Foster
President Obama and Congressman Bill Foster are scheduled to make a campaign stop today at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois.
Why Argonne?
Well it’s to chat about the devastating effects of the President’s own Sequester on the laboratory and how Congressman Foster did nothing to stop these cuts from taking effect of course!
NRCC Statement: “It’s shameful that Congressman Bill Foster will participate in a photo op with President Obama at a lab being hit by their very own Sequester cuts. Bill Foster refuses to help the families of the 11th District but doesn’t hesitate to use them as political props.” – NRCC Spokeswoman Katie Prill
Congressman Bill Foster to Join President Obama at Argonne
Plainfield Patch
By Shannon Antinori
March 14, 2013
Congressman Bill Foster (D-11th) will join President Barack Obama as he visits Argonne National Laboratory on Friday afternoon.
The trip, which is closed to the public, will focus on American energy, according to White House officials
An official told the Chicago Tribune that Obama’s visit may or may not also include comments on the impact on facilities like Argonne of funding cuts caused by the current sequester.
Foster, who was elected to the newly redrawn 11th District in November, previously worked as a physicist at Fermilab for 22 years.
The Chicago Sun-Times notes that this is the president’s first trip to the Chicago area since speaking at Hyde Park Academy on Feb. 15; the First Lady visited McCormick Place on Feb. 28 to promote her physical-fitness campaign “Let’s Move.”