Rep. Charles Rangel, the influential chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, was publicly admonished by the House ethics panel Thursday for taking trips to the Caribbean that were paid for by private corporations.Rangel, a New York Democrat and 39-year veteran of Congress, has been at the center of multiple ethics probes. At a Capitol Hill news conference, he said that he was "disturbed" by the result of the panel's eight-month investigation and that he would let the "community make its own judgment."
The trips, to Antigua in 2007 and St. Maarten in 2008 were sponsored by a foundation with ties to a Caribbean newspaper, according to the panel's report. The committee said it could not determine the source of all of the money used for the trips.
It's pretty clear that USA Today needs to hire better fact checkers. Because we all know that democrats are working for the little guys. They would never take money for such extravagances like caribbean vacations.
Well maybe if he loses his job he'll have time to get his tax returns in line with the laws he actually votes on....
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