{"id":97364,"date":"2026-07-12T18:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T18:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/mccaul-we-owe-it-to-lindsey-graham-to-pass-that-tough-russian-sanctions-bill-in-his-honor\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T18:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T18:44:07","slug":"mccaul-we-owe-it-to-lindsey-graham-to-pass-that-tough-russian-sanctions-bill-in-his-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/mccaul-we-owe-it-to-lindsey-graham-to-pass-that-tough-russian-sanctions-bill-in-his-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"McCaul: &#8220;We Owe It To Lindsey Graham To Pass That Tough Russian Sanctions Bill&#8230; In His Honor&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Texas GOP Rep. Michael McCaul responded to the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham by suggesting that Congress pass a new sanctions bill on Russia in his honor.   &#8220;The Senate lost a giant,&#8221; McCaul said Sunday on ABC&#8217;s This Week.  &#8220;We were planning to introduce the sanction bill together this coming week,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I will still introduce that bill, the Senate will, and I think in his honor that we owe it to Lindsey Graham to pass that tough Russian sanctions bill. He would love nothing more than that.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/07\/12\/mccaul_we_owe_it_to_lindsey_graham_to_pass_that_tough_russian_sanctions_bill.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas GOP Rep. Michael McCaul responded to the death of Sen. Lindsey Graham by suggesting that Congress pass a new sanctions bill on Russia in his honor. &#8220;The Senate lost a giant,&#8221; McCaul said Sunday on ABC&#8217;s This Week. &#8220;We were planning to introduce the sanction bill together this coming week,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[334,6254,8809,6253,29861,1914,1325,3935,8676],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}