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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — When Republican representatives hooked up for a conference call this week to discuss the political crisis over former Rep. Mark Foley’s salacious messages to former pages, the most heated ...

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 ...

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 (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 ...