The Latest Breaking News from Jackie Walorski

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden called out a recently deceased congresswoman in remarks at a hunger conference she helped organize, addressing the lawmaker as if she were still alive.

The US leader named Republican Jackie Walorski while thanking lawmakers from both parties for their efforts in helping his plan to end - despite releasing a tribute following her death in August

The President appeared to scan the crowd while asking ‘Where’s Jackie?‘

Biden mistakenly called out for the Indiana Republican who died in a car crash in August. She had cosponsored a bill to fund the conference.

Indiana congresswoman died in car crash earlier this year

President Biden also appeared to forget that a Republican lawmaker who backed the hunger conference was killed in a car accident last month.

He brought his sax and chose his favorite song to honor the person America knew as Rep. Walorski, but he knew as Jackie.

Investigators used evidence from reconstruction and information from the airbag control module (also referred to as the car's "black box").

Police say a staffer for Republican U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski was trying to pass a flat-bed truck on a northern Indiana highway last when the SUV they were in crashed into an oncoming car, killing Walorski and three other people

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Former Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill is dismissing as “old news” the question of whether allegations that he drunkenly groped four women during a 2018 party could hurt his chances of replacing Republican U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski following her death in a highway crash