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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

A nearly two-hundred year old tradition in the House of Representatives ended Monday with the termination of the U.S. House of Representatives Page Program. High school juniors running around the ...

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Monday that the $5 million annual expense can no longer be justified when messages and other materials are ...