Jahana Hayes represents Connecticut’s 5th District in the United States House of Representatives. The district spans northwest and central Connecticut and includes Danbury, Litchfield County, the Farmington Valley, the Naugatuck Valley, Meriden, and her hometown of Waterbury. She serves on committees of Education and Labor, and Agriculture where she is the chairwoman of the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Oversight and Department Operations.
Congresswoman Hayes has supported a multitude of education bills and proposals that would make our classrooms safer and more equitable for students of all backgrounds, and has fought for significant increases to federal education funding to reverse the decades of chronic disinvestment in public education. The Congresswoman has introduced bills that would invest in supports for educators, increasing recruitment and retention to keep teachers in the classroom and diversifying the workforce to meet the unique needs of our communities. She continues to work to improve the quality of higher education, tackle student loan debt, advance educational equity, meet the demand for skilled workers, help public servants, and lower the cost of college.