Kids don’t make stuff anymore, according to U.S. Rep. Bill Foster (D, IL-11). That thought motivated him to sponsor legislation that would establish a charter of Fab Labs across the nation.
Fab Labs are open-to-the-public digital fabrication laboratories where products can be invented, designed and manufactured by adults and children alike. First instituted in 2008 by the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), there are approximately 160 Fab Labs nationwide with 150 more in development.
“A
city grows when its manufacturing base grows,” said Foster at a roundtable discussion on the legislation today. “As a country, you can only
consume what you create.”
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Second-year Congressman and nationally prominent Tea Party mouthpiece
Joe Walsh announced Thursday that he would run for re-election in
Illinois’ re-drawn 8th Congressional district – his current district,
discarding earlier intentions to run in the 14th. This is despite the
fact that his home county of McHenry is now in the 14th District and a
newly redrawn 8th district is now made up of majority Democratic voters.
Tea Partyer U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh (R-8) has been fingered as one of the nation's most corrupt congressmen by 
Illinois legislators are hearing it from their constituents during the August recess as residents head to town hall meetings and protest functions hosted by local politicians.
