"He stood in front of a podium in Europe holding a drink, so of course we want to know if his performance is compromised," said Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.).
”Much as we might be sympathetic to people with continuing alcohol problems, they shouldn’t be at the top of our national-security structure,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) told The New Yorker
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