Lawmakers - Congressional Pages
Lawmakers - Congressional Pages
Lawmakers - Congressional Pages 12/15/1983
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Linda Wertheimer - intro report on Congressional pages and reforms designed to give the pages a more structured and protected lifestyle in wake of some scandals.
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Representative Barber Conable (R - New York) consider our obligation to the young people who come down here as pages and whether or not we wish to continue this institution of the teenage page
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DO NOT USE newspaper articles
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Deborah Dobin, Congressional Page, I feel like this is the greatest opportunity of my life so far. Rob Levine, Congressional Page, The people you meet, I mean it s a once in a lifetime opportunity. Teenage Congressional Pages chatting, walking near Capitol Hill.
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Representative Douglas Bosco (D - California), We were always told as pages, never to sit in the members chairs. And still, every time I sit down in one of the members chairs I keep thinking someone s going to kick me out of it.
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The House of Representatives in session.
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Representative Douglas Bosco (D - California). When members would come in and not know what the voters were on that particular moment, we had to explain to them what issues were on the floor, what our, how are party leadership wanted them to vote - little things like that.
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Francis Gorman, former Congressional page, the lady that that owned the boarding house had certain house rules, such as no female visitors, curfews, she imposed curfews, but generally we were up to our own. It was a good growing experience.
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Representative Tip O Neill (D - Massachusetts), There is no question that they were unsupervised. And when you have unsupervised young men and women of that age, they could always get in trouble. And so the main thing is, if we are going to have a page school than you had to have supervision.
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Representative Joseph Minish (D - New Jersey), announcing changes to the Congressional page program. Well first of all you have to be a B student. That s the number one criteria. Naturally we re interested in to know if anyone had gotten into any trouble. But let me tell you this - if they get in trouble here, they re out the first day, regardless of who the sponsor is - not the next day, the first day.
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Congressional Hotel which has become a dormitory for Congressional Pages. Signs and security measures.
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Representative Joseph Minish (D - New Jersey), talking about security for Congressional Page dormitory. I understand that there is a patrolman that patrols the hallways. And I also understand that some very, very loud sounding alarms have been put on the doors, so if anyone decides that they want to go out the backdoor, he d be shocked into reality and probably fall on his face, but inside.
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Congressional Page demonstrates the security systems in the dormitory.
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Rob Levine, Congressional Page talks about curfew, They do come around and knock on the door They check if we re both in the room, then they leave. They do bed-checks. Deborah Dobin, Congressional Page, I think the security is necessary. And I think I know my parents rest easy knowing there is a great deal of security in the dorm.
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Shots inside room of Congressional Page dormitory. (Do not use political cartoon).
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DO NOT USE posters in rooms.
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Congressional Page walking to Capitol building.
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Representative Joseph Minish (D - New Jersey), (They re working at the Capitol, the seat of power in the United States.) They get to see members, and hear members, and meet members - the Senate as well - who help run the legislative branch of government and that s a tremendous experience. I think much more than they would accomplish by reading books.
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Francis Gorman, former Congressional page, I think most pages, after their experience on the Hill, have little dreams of being a Congressman or a Senator.
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Deborah Dobin, Congressional Page, Just being on the Floor of the House of Representative - I know in school everywhere they talk about these places. They talk about the Capitol; they talk about the Library of Congress. But I go to school in the Library of Congress now and I work in the Capitol. And it s just so exciting to be here. And the places they talk about are real.