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 that they are terminating the long-running congressional page program for high school students--both out of cost considerations, and in recognition of the diminished ...

For almost 200 years, teenagers have made the trek to Washington D.C. to help the government in its gargantuan task of managing our nation. These pages have handled messages and ferried documents from ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you walk through Congress when it's in session you'll see teenage pages wandering the halls. Pages have been in Congress since its inception, but this week the leaders of the House of ...

A congressional delegate has announced plans to introduce a bill to create a volunteer summer-internship initiative replacing the recently terminated House page program. According to a Wednesday news ...

It’s easy to dismiss the congressional page program as an antiquated, elitist form of serfdom. That’s because it is. I should know — I myself journeyed to the Capitol a decade ago to become a Senate ...

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced they were ending the House page program. As of Aug. 31, the program — which employs nearly 70 high school ...

After 200 years, the page program in the House of Representatives is ending. Both party leaders in the House have decided it’s no longer cost-effective. NBC’s ...