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For the past three years, this Administration has lowered the threshold for the number of refugees the United States will accept. Last year, refugee admissions were capped at 30,000, one of the lowest in history. Just this week, we found out the Administration eroded this cap even further. Only 18,000 refugees will be allowed into the United States in 2020.
Since being sworn into Congress, I have heard a daily debate about the impeachment of the president from my colleagues, my constituents, and the media. Throughout these weeks and months, I have been consistent in stating that the process must play out.
WASHINGTON – Today, United States Congresswoman Jahana Hayes (CT-05) released the following statement:
Last week, I voted to pass three bills out of the House of Representatives that would protect the coasts of Connecticut, and our nation, from the devastating impact of offshore oil and gas drilling.
WASHINGTON – Today, United States Congresswoman Jahana Hayes spoke at the House Committee on Education & Labor in support of H.R. 4301, the School Shooting Safety and Preparedness Act.
WATERBURY, Conn. – In response to news that the city of New Britain, Connecticut, will be the recipient of $2,353,066 in grant funding from the Department of Homeland Security, United States Congresswoman Jahana Hayes (CT-05) released the following statement:
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.
WATERBURY, Conn. – In response to stories by both The Connecticut Mirror (“Hayes has ‘heightened sense’ about security concerns”) and Republican-American (“U.S. Rep.
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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. |