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 ...
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 ...
If you were to peer into the dimly lit corners of the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, you would notice a pair of cherry-stained desks surrounded by dozens of teenagers dressed in navy blue ...
Technology is about to put about 70 young men and women out of a job. After nearly 200 years of using teenagers as paid messengers, the House of Representatives will be concluding its page program as ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
The House will eliminate the teenage pages who have carried legislators’ messages since the First Continental Congress, as e-mail, smartphones and budget woes combined to kill off a tradition older ...