{"id":19505,"date":"2026-03-02T19:46:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-assumes-heightened-security-posture-as-us-strikes-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T19:46:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:46:49","slug":"house-assumes-heightened-security-posture-as-us-strikes-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-assumes-heightened-security-posture-as-us-strikes-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"House assumes \u2018heightened security\u2019 posture as US strikes Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The House is toughening its security as the U.S. continues its war with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>In a Monday letter to House offices, House Sergeant at Arms William McFarland said, \u201cThere will be heightened security measures and a noticeable increased police presence across the U.S. Capitol campus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the USCP has not identified any specific or credible threats, these measures have been put in place out of an abundance of caution,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House is toughening its security as the U.S. continues its war with Iran. In a Monday letter to House offices, House Sergeant at Arms William McFarland said, \u201cThere will be heightened security measures and a noticeable increased police presence across the U.S. Capitol campus.\u201d \u201cWhile the USCP has not identified any specific or credible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}