What are Pages?
High school students with political aspirations often seek page or intern positions with legislators. Congressional pages rotate through a variety of assignments on Capitol Hill. They can answer phone calls and take messages for members of Congress. They deliver a variety of documents and packages for congresspeople and their offices. The documentarian pages are often seen on C-SPAN because they sit near the front of the House of Representatives. Several assignments call for pages to interact frequently with members of Congress. Some pages have even gone on to become congresspeople themselves. Currently, sixty-six young men and women are appointed by their Members of Congress to service as pages in the U.S. House of Representatives. Fifty-four slots are reserved for Republican pages (the slot reservation ratio between the two parties depends on which party controls the House). The pages live on Capitol Hill and act primarily as messengers delivering legislative material between the var