Jahana Hayes: “I remind everyone that we have a responsibility to educate 50 million plus students, not just one million.”

We will not take away opportunity for so many children. We will not eliminate Pell grants and all the programs that help people from low-income communities to go to college.

I am pleased that federal funding will help make this a reality for more veterans and military families by expanding the Connecticut State Veterans Cemetery.

The people of the Fifth District are looking for leaders to address the affordability crisis, cuts to healthcare, endless wars we are engaged in and so many other things.

We just have to have a different conversation, and it doesn’t mean that I think aid should be off the table, because that’s not where I am.