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 ...

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 ...

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 those who say Democrats and Republicans in Washington can't find common ground, consider this: House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi have issued a statement announcing that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... U.S. Rep. Mark Foley resigned last week after revelations emerged of sexually explicit instant messages he sent in 2003 to former congressional pages. Here ...

WASHINGTON – 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 email in ...