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September 12, 2019 Press Release

WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswomen Jahana Hayes (CT-05), Mary Gay Scanlon (PA-05), and Lucy McBath (GA-06) introduced H.R. 4298, the Pell Grant Restoration Act.

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August 25, 2019 Press Release

WATERBURY, Conn. – In response to stories by both The Connecticut Mirror (“Hayes has ‘heightened sense’ about security concerns”) and Republican-American (“U.S. Rep.

August 9, 2019 Blog Post

Dear Friend,

13 hours.

That is all the time it took for two separate mass shootings to occur in the United States of America.

13 hours. 2 cities. 31 lives lost. 53 injured.

August 5, 2019 Press Release

WATERBURY, Conn. – In the wake of the recent mass shootings at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California, Cielo Vista mall in El Paso, Texas, and in Dayton, Ohio, Congresswoman Jahana Hayes (CT-05) released the following statement on gun violence and white nationalism in America:

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July 26, 2019 Press Release

WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Jahana Hayes (CT-05), Senator Kamala Harris (CA), and Congressmembers Julia Brownley (CA-26), Jim Costa (CA-16), Jesús “Chuy” García (IL-04), Ann Kirkpatrick (AZ-02), Mike Levin (CA-49), Jim Himes (CT-04), and John Larson (CT-01) introduced H.R. 3973, the Clean School Bus Act.

July 25, 2019 Blog Post

Dear Friend,

It should be basic that we do not make children breathe dirty air in order to get to school. Yet, that is what our kids have had to do for decades while travelling on old, polluting school buses.

July 12, 2019 Blog Post

Dear Friend,

July 12, 2019 Press Release

Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Jahana Hayes (CT-05) released the following statement following the passage of H.R. 1327, the Never Forget the Heroes: James Zadroga, Ray Pfeifer, and Luis Alvarez Permanent Authorization of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund Act.

July 11, 2019 Blog Post

Dear Friend,

Food insecurity and hunger is a problem on Connecticut college campuses, and we have not done enough to address it. That stops now.

Today, I introduced the Closing the College Hunger Gap Act with Senator Murphy to ensure college students are protected from food insecurity.

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July 11, 2019 Press Release

WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Jahana Hayes (CT-5), a member of the Committee on Education and Labor, introduced the Closing the College Hunger Gap Act with Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT).

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