Indiana 2023 Regular Session

Indiana Senate Bill SCR0038 Compare Versions

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1	1	Introduced Version
2	2	SENATE CONCURRENT
3	3	RESOLUTION No. _____
4	4	DIGEST OF INTRODUCED RESOLUTION
5	5	A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION memorializing Congresswoman
6	6	Jackie Walorski.
7	7	ROGERS, MISHLER, DORIOT,
8	8	NIEZGODSKI, DONATO,
9	9	BOHACEK, ZAY
10	10	, read first time and referred to Committee on
11	11	2023 RC 1533/DI SM Introduced
12	12	First Regular Session 123rd General Assembly (2023)
13	13	SENATE CONCURRENT
14	14	RESOLUTION No. _____
15	15	1 A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION memorializing
16	16	2 Congresswoman Jackie Walorski.
17	17	3 Whereas, Jacqueline R. Walorski (Jackie) was born on
18	18	4 August 17, 1963, to Raymond and Martha Walorski in South
19	19	5 Bend, Indiana;
20	20	6 Whereas, Congresswoman Walorski graduated from James
21	21	7 Whitcomb Riley High School in 1981, attended Liberty Baptist
22	22	8 College, and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in
23	23	9 communications and public administration from Taylor
24	24	10 University in 1985, making her the first in her family to
25	25	11 graduate from college;
26	26	12 Whereas, Upon graduation, Congresswoman Walorski held
27	27	13 positions as a crime reporter for WSBT-TV, staff member of the
28	28	14 South Bend Regional Chamber of Commerce, Executive
29	29	15 Director of the St. Joseph County Humane Society, Director of
30	30	16 Development for Ancilla College, and Director of Development
31	31	17 at Indiana University South Bend;
32	32	18 Whereas, In 1995, Congresswoman Walorski married her
33	33	19 husband, Dean Swihart, and in 2000, the couple elected to
34	34	20 serve as non-traditional Christian missionaries in Romania for
35	35	21 four years, where they assisted in church planting, worked with
36	36	22 homeless children, orphanages, the children's burn unit, and
37	37	23 remote villages before eventually founding an agency to help
38	38	24 provide food and medical supplies to the country's
39	39	25 impoverished children;
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41	41	1 Whereas, In 2004, Following her return from missionary
42	42	2 service, Congresswoman Walorski was elected to the first of
43	43	3 three terms serving the twenty-first district in the Indiana
44	44	4 House of Representatives;
45	45	5 Whereas, Congresswoman Walorski quickly rose to become
46	46	6 the Assistant Floor Leader for the Republican caucus and
47	47	7 served on multiple committees, including Public Policy and
48	48	8 Family, Children, and Human Affairs Committees;
49	49	9 Whereas, During her tenure in the Indiana House of
50	50	10 Representatives, Congresswoman Walorski authored legislation
51	51	11 combating identity theft, sponsored Indiana's voter
52	52	12 identification law, advocated for the unborn and the Second
53	53	13 Amendment, was a policy leader for fiscal responsibility, and
54	54	14 promoted economic growth through efforts to balance Indiana's
55	55	15 budget, lower taxes, and eliminate wasteful government
56	56	16 spending;
57	57	17 Whereas, In 2012, Congresswoman Walorski was elected
58	58	18 to serve the Second Congressional District of Indiana in the
59	59	19 United States House of Representatives for the 113th Congress,
60	60	20 where she served as Chair of the Nutrition Subcommittee,
61	61	21 Ranking Member of the Ethics Committee and the
62	62	22 Subcommittee on Worker and Family Support of the Committee
63	63	23 on Ways and Means, and as a member of the House Committees
64	64	24 including Agriculture, Armed Services, Budget, Ethics, and
65	65	25 Veterans' Affairs;
66	66	26 Whereas, While in Congress, Congresswoman Walorski
67	67	27 was a leader for those in poverty by strengthening programs for
68	68	28 foster youth and children involved in the welfare system,
69	69	29 expanding access to paid family leave and child care, fighting
70	70	30 food insecurity, providing expedited delivery of international
71	71	31 food aid, and increasing food donations;
72	72	32 Whereas, Congresswoman Walorski championed issues
73	73	33 directly impacting Hoosiers in all walks of life through
74	74	34 legislation concerning small businesses, manufacturing,
75	75	35 agriculture, economic opportunity, the fentanyl crisis, national
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77	77	1 security, and transparency in the federal government;
78	78	2 Whereas, The daughter of an Air Force veteran,
79	79	3 Congresswoman Walorski remained steadfast in her advocacy
80	80	4 for servicemembers and veterans through the enactment of the
81	81	5 Veterans Mobility Safety Act of 2016, expanding whistleblower
82	82	6 protections to military sexual assaults through the National
83	83	7 Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014, and
84	84	8 introducing legislation to double the death gratuity paid to
85	85	9 families of servicemembers killed on active duty;
86	86	10 Whereas, On August 3, 2022, Congresswoman Walorski
87	87	11 was returning from a ribbon-cutting ceremony at a soybean
88	88	12 processing facility in Claypool, Indiana, along with staff
89	89	13 members Zach Potts and Emma Thomson, when their vehicle
90	90	14 was involved in a fatal collision; and
91	91	15 Whereas, Congresswoman Walorski's integrity, conviction,
92	92	16 work ethic, passion for public service, and strength of Hoosier
93	93	17 values will be greatly missed in the United States House of
94	94	18 Representatives, the Second Congressional District of Indiana,
95	95	19 and across the Hoosier state and nation: Therefore,
96	96	20 Be it resolved by the Senate of the General Assembly
97	97	21 of the State of Indiana, the House of Representatives
98	98	22 concurring:
99	99	23 SECTION 1. That the Indiana General Assembly
100	100	24 memorializes Congresswoman Jackie Walorski.
101	101	25 SECTION 2. The Secretary of the Senate is hereby directed
102	102	26 to transmit copies of this Resolution to Dean Swihart, Martha
103	103	27 Walorski, David Walorski, and Keith Walorski.
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