Charlie Rangel Says He’ll Be Admonished Over Travel Payments

(CNN) - Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel will be formally admonished Friday by the House Ethics Committee, he told reporters Thursday. The issue concerns who paid for travel he and several other members of the Congressional Black Caucus took to the Caribbean in 2007 and 2008. The powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee told CNN that the ethics committee had approved the travel.