"I have nothing but respect and gratitude for the officers who intercepted me that evening," the 10-term congressman from Austin said in a statement.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul says he was briefly detained after becoming “disoriented” from mixing Ambien and alcohol before a flight earlier this month,

A nervous flier, the House Foreign Affairs chief said he made a “poor decision” to mix Ambien and alcohol before his flight home to Texas on Nov. 4.