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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Gloria Oladipo

Biden apologizes after mistakenly calling on late congresswoman

Joe Biden called out from the podium, ‘Jackie, are you here? Where’s Jackie? She must not be here,’ apparently forgetting that the congresswoman had died in a car accident.
Joe Biden called out, ‘Jackie, are you here? Where’s Jackie? She must not be here,’ apparently forgetting that the congresswoman had died. Photograph: Yuri Gripas/UPI/Rex/Shutterstock

The mother of the late congresswoman Jackie Walorski told Joe Biden that her daughter was in “heaven with Jesus” after the president apologized for mistakenly calling for Walorski during public remarks last week despite her death in August.

During a private meeting in the Oval Office with the Walorski family on Friday, Biden apologized for a gaffe he made during a summit on food insecurity on 28 September, when he called into the audience to see if Walorski was in attendance, as the Republican representative from Indiana had served as co-chairperson of the House Hunger Caucus.

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