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