WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden appeared to call out the late Rep. Jackie Walorski, R-Ind., who died in a car wreck in August, for being in attendance during a speech Wednesday at the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health.
Biden thanked "all of you here," singling out Walorski and other lawmakers, for their work on hunger as he spoke about his administration's efforts to end hunger in the U.S. by 2030.
"Jackie, are you here? Where's Jackie? I don't think – she was going to be here," Biden said.
Walorski and two of her congressional staff members died in August during a head-on car collision in northern Indiana. She was 58.
The only time I would use "top of mind" is to make a joke. I might actually start laughing if I was in public and I overheard some earnest lib actually saying it. "X is top of mind..." is just a fancy phrase for "[the person] was thinking about X". People in DC, pundits, etc love all that sophisticated sounding crap. It's like "The American people" instead of just saying "Americans" or "the public".
I wonder if there's a line of dialog in The West Wing that's pretty much the same as that.