Loading lawmaker…
U.S. Representative · Connecticut 5th District
Jahana Hayes
DemocratDistrict D+3119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score39#233 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Jahana Hayes’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office2049 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-0705
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
Signals to watch
What in this member’s district, record and ideology could move them, and in which direction. Their score is the same on every bill they haven’t committed to, so these are the things to watch.Could pull them toward Republicans · 3 signals
- StrongBacks 6 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 6 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.R. 842, H.R. 979, H.R. 1262, H.R. 1329, H.R. 2978 and 1 more.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 842 Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 979 AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 1262 Mikaela Naylon Give Kids a Chance Act
Show all 6
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 1329 Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 2978 GUARD Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored:
Term and election
From the congress-legislators datasetOn the ballot 2026
- Current term
- January 3, 2025 – January 3, 2027
- Next election
- November 3, 2026
- Years in office
- 7.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on AgricultureMinority · 5th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign AgricultureRanking Member
- Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry
- House Committee on Education and WorkforceMinority · 10th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions
- Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
R median
Hayes← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.341 is 0.05 to the right of the House Democratic median (-0.393).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Democratic average- 119th Congress0House Democratic average: 1 (n=210)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3 · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 201–250 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S. 1890Carla Walker ActSummary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | No recorded vote | 45
| Middle |
| S. 2132CLEAR Path Act |