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Source: CNN
President Joe Biden on Wednesday asked if a congresswoman who died last month was present at a White House food insecurity conference.
At the event, the White Houses first hunger conference since 1969, Biden took a moment during his remarks to credit a list of bipartisan elected officials. All of the officials he listed were behind a bill establishing Wednesdays conference, and the late Indiana Republican Rep. Jackie Walorski was a co-sponsor.
I want to thank all of you here for including bipartisan elected officials like Rep. (Jim) McGovern, Sen. (Mike) Braun, Sen. (Cory) Booker, Representative Jackie, are you here? Wheres Jackie? I think she wasnt going to be here to help make this a reality, Biden said.
Walorski, who was 58, died last month in a car accident that also killed two of her staffers. She began serving in Congress in 2013. Before her death, the congresswoman was the co-chair of the House Hunger Caucus.
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