{"id":8039,"date":"2024-04-29T10:09:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T15:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2024\/04\/29\/ted-cruzs-proposal-to-let-members-of-congress-skip-airport-security-hits-roadblock\/"},"modified":"2024-04-29T10:09:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T15:09:50","slug":"ted-cruzs-proposal-to-let-members-of-congress-skip-airport-security-hits-roadblock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/2024\/04\/29\/ted-cruzs-proposal-to-let-members-of-congress-skip-airport-security-hits-roadblock\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz&#8217;s proposal to let members of Congress skip airport security hits roadblock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz&#8217;s proposal to let members of Congress circumvent pesky airport checkpoints and get private screenings while traveling by air has been grounded by a fellow lawmaker, The Hill reports. Mississippi U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, the\u00a0ranking Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee, issued an objection dropping Cruz&#8217;s measure from the current Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill, The Hill reports, citing people familiar with the negotiations. Cruz, a Texas Republican, drew up a proposal that would\u00a0establish special, hidden-from-view security screenings for federal lawmakers, judges and cabinet members who could show they faced &#8220;credible threats.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz&#8217;s proposal to let members of Congress circumvent pesky airport checkpoints and get private screenings while traveling by air has been grounded by a fellow lawmaker, The Hill reports. Mississippi U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, the\u00a0ranking Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee, issued an objection dropping Cruz&#8217;s measure from the current Federal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klmo2.creativeeyedeas.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}