{"id":22882,"date":"2026-05-17T23:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T23:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/van-hollen-says-hes-unsure-patel-will-take-alcohol-use-test-after-heated-hearing\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T23:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T23:22:10","slug":"van-hollen-says-hes-unsure-patel-will-take-alcohol-use-test-after-heated-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/van-hollen-says-hes-unsure-patel-will-take-alcohol-use-test-after-heated-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Hollen says he&#8217;s unsure Patel will take alcohol use test after heated hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said Sunday that he was unsure that FBI Director Kash Patel will take an alcohol use test after a heated hearing in which the senator pressed Patel on his drinking. &ldquo;Well, senator, you took the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test. You challenged Director Patel to do the same&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5882288-fbi-director-alcohol-test\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) said Sunday that he was unsure that FBI Director Kash Patel will take an alcohol use test after a heated hearing in which the senator pressed Patel on his drinking. &ldquo;Well, senator, you took the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test. You challenged Director Patel to do the same&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22882","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=22882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}