What is a congressional page and how do you become one?
Since 1839, the United States Congress has employed young people as pages who serve as messengers and perform administrative tasks. Currently, the House of Representatives has 72 pages, while the Senate has 30. These pages are high-school juniors from around the country, and competition to become a congressional page is fierce. The most important requirement for becoming a page is a nomination from the candidate’s member of Congress in either the Senate or the House. The congressperson’s ranking can determine whether or not he or she can even make a nomination. Senior members have priority if they wish to nominate a page. In addition, the majority party in Congress seems to assign more pages than the minority party. Page applicants must be in their junior year of high school for th
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