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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The House voted Friday to overhaul the board that supervises its congressional page program, seeking to close the book on a sordid e-mail and sex scandal that sullied its reputation and became a ...

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 ...