{"id":138604,"date":"2024-11-14T13:25:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T13:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=138604"},"modified":"2024-11-14T13:25:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T13:25:49","slug":"house-republican-charged-with-being-drunk-at-dulles-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=138604","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;House Republican charged with being drunk at Dulles Airport&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2024\/11\/13\/michael-mccaul-dulles-arrest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) was charged with being drunkin public at Dulles International Airport, according to a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The incident,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/11\/13\/2024\/house-foreign-affairs-chief-detained-by-airport-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/11\/13\/2024\/house-foreign-affairs-chief-detained-by-airport-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first reported by Semafor<\/a>, occurred about 9 p.m. on Nov. 4, a day before the presidential election. He was released on a summons to a third-party driver, the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTwo weekends ago, I made a mistake \u2014 one for which I take full responsibility,\u201d McCaul said in a statement. \u201cThis incident does not reflect who I am and who I strive to be.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) was charged with being drunkin public at Dulles International Airport, according to a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority. The incident,&nbsp;first reported by Semafor, occurred about 9 p.m. on Nov. 4, a day before the presidential election. He was released on a summons to a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138605,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138604\/revisions\/138605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}