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 it crossed the median of a northern Indiana highway and collided with an oncoming vehicle, according to the Elkhart County Sheriff’s Office.
Walorski’s 27-year-old staffer, Zachery Potts, of Mishawaka, Indiana, was driving. The congresswoman’s 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….