{"id":1604793,"date":"2022-08-13T16:03:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T20:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1604793"},"modified":"2022-08-13T16:03:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T20:03:23","slug":"house-holds-moment-of-silence-for-rep-jackie-walorski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-holds-moment-of-silence-for-rep-jackie-walorski\/","title":{"rendered":"House Holds Moment of Silence for Rep. Jackie Walorski"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-holds-moment-of-silence-for-rep-jackie-walorski%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1604793&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The House of Representatives on Friday held a moment of silence for Republican Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-jackie-walorski\">Jackie Walorski<\/a> and two of her aides, who died in an automobile crash while traveling in her Indiana district just over a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>Walorski, 58, was in an SUV with two members of her congressional staff on Aug. 3 when it crossed the median of a northern Indiana highway and collided with an oncoming vehicle, according to the Elkhart County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Walorski\u2019s 27-year-old staffer, Zachery Potts, of Mishawaka, Indiana, was driving. The congresswoman\u2019s 28-year-old communications director, Emma Thomson, of Washington, was also in the vehicle. The woman who was driving the other vehicle also died in the crash.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Rep.-Jackie-Walorski-1200x800-1.jpg\"><\/a> Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.) speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 19, 2018. (J. Scott Applewhite\/AP Photo) <\/p>\n<p>Walorski was first elected to Congress in 2012 after six years in the state Legislature and was seeking reelection this year in the solidly Republican district.<\/p>\n<p>She was active on agriculture and food policy in Congress, often working across the aisle on those issues. A co-chair of the House Hunger Caucus, she introduced legislation with Democrats to bring back a Nixon-era White House event on food insecurity.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/08\/13\/Walorski-GettyImages-1414507717.jpg\"><\/a> Black bunting and white flowers are laid on a seat on the floor of the House of Representatives in memorial of Rep. Jackie Warlorski (R-Ind.) at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Aug. 12, 2022. (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, numerous members of Congress were among several hundred mourners for the nearly two-hour service at Granger Community Church near Walorski\u2019s northern Indiana home.<\/p>\n<p>Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy spoke about Walorski\u2019s work as a Christian missionary in Romania with her husband, as the director of a local humane society, and as a television news reporter before entering politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House of Representatives on Friday held a moment of silence for Republican Rep. Jackie Walorski and two of her aides, who died in an automobile crash while traveling in her Indiana district just over a week ago. Walorski, 58, was in an SUV with two members of her congressional staff on Aug. 3 when [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1604793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1604793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1604793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1604793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1604793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}