Much of the coverage of John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi's announcement that the House Page Program would be ending for good on August 31 carried references to its most recent brush with publicity: the ...
House leaders announced Monday they are shutting down the U.S. House of Representatives' Page program at the end of the summer, ending a Washington institution nearly 200 years old. Citing advances in ...
Budget cuts ended the historic and occasionally scandal-ridden program. — -- Nearly 200 years since its inception, Congressional leadership ended the historic and occasionally scandal-ridden ...
The Mark Foley scandal, which last fall threatened to kill the congressional page program, has had the opposite effect: Interest from teenagers in the program is on the upswing. Congressional ...
WASHINGTON – More teenagers want to be congressional pages despite a sex scandal last fall when a congressman resigned after questions over inappropriate communication with male pages, a news report ...
Reporting from Washington — Naomi Hung remembers her stint as a House page as a transformative experience. “It actually gave me a really deep sense of respect for government, which I honestly think is ...
The scandal surrounding former Rep. Mark Foley has brought new attention to a program that brings dozens of high-school students to Capitol Hill each year. Path to Pagedom: To qualify, pages must be ...
Add another line of work to the ever growing scrap heap of history containing the casualties of technological change: the House Page program that is almost as old as the American Republic. Actually, ...
These days, the words “NBC page” conjure up images of cheerful “30 Rock” character Kenneth Parcell. While Parcell may have made a name for the NBC Page Program in prime time, pages have been a crucial ...
WASHINGTON (AP) - After nearly 200 years, the House page program that allowed high school students to serve as messengers and learn about Congress is ending, rendered obsolete by the Internet and ...
Much of the coverage of John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi's announcement that the House Page Program would be ending for good on August 31 carried references to its most recent brush with publicity: the ...