Maria Crane for The Texas Tribune

WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson is defending U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw , R-Houston, in the wake of a report that his behavior on a congressional delegation trip to Mexico in August was inappropriate.

The dispute stems from an incident in which Crenshaw, a member of the House Intelligence Committee and the chair of a now-dissolved cartel task force, reportedly toasted a Mexican official who had made a crude joke that made a woman in the room uncomfortable, according to anonymous sources in Punchbowl News.

Following the trip, Punchbowl reported that House Intelligence Committee chair Rick Crawford, R-Arkansas, banned Crenshaw from taxpayer-funded travel outside the country for 90 days. Crawford saw that decision "as being authorized by the GOP leadersh

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