WASHINGTON — Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, the Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, was briefly detained after an interaction with police at Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C., a spokesperson for the congressman told NBC News.

The spokesperson said that McCaul was not arrested and was not threatening to anyone, but police approached him because he appeared to be drunk and needed help. McCaul was then able to phone a family member to pick him up from the airport to…