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Paper: Pages Had Oral Sex In Front of Colleagues

December 10, 2007 1:27 PM

Paperpageshad_mn Teenaged congressional pages performed oral sex in front of their colleagues for weeks before they were caught and expelled from the program, according to a new report in Roll Call newspaper.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has pledged to reform the page program, which brings dozens of 15- and 16-year-old students to live and study in Washington, D.C., while working as aides in congressional offices.

"As a mother and a grandmother, nothing is more important to me than the safety and security of our House pages," Pelosi said in a statement. 

The page program has been reportedly reformed at least once already in the past year, after former Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., was exposed for sending inappropriate and suggestive e-mails and instant messages to teenaged former pages.

Two Republican lawmakers resigned their seats on the page program's oversight board last week to protest what they said was a failure to inform them of misbehavior in the program which was leading to expulsions.

In addition to the two pages reportedly expelled for their oral sex performances, two other pages were reportedly expelled for shoplifting from stores at Washington, D.C.-area shopping malls. One was reportedly charged with a felony.

Do you have a tip for Brian Ross and the Investigative Team?

December 10, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (49)

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This is part of the training program to become congressional "representatives" themselves. Then they can spend all day cooking up ways to regulate morality....and spend all night violating them.

Posted by: ken lewis | Dec 10, 2007 2:35:12 PM

Nahhh, the Pages are following the examples of all the Republican lawmakers.

Posted by: FormerRepub | Dec 10, 2007 2:38:37 PM

I miss the Clinton days too. Oral sex is a very different concern than Blackwater, KBR, Enron, Katrina, Iran invasion, croni-ism, "missing" billion$, no body armor, no health care, no college aid raises, rotting bridges, political firings, Social Security and MediCare/Aide going broke, any US citizen can be an enemy combatant now, etc. etc.

Posted by: david | Dec 10, 2007 3:04:50 PM

Why didn't they kick out some who were getting a peep show?

Posted by: Ninjapirate | Dec 10, 2007 3:11:27 PM

Yeah David, Clinton's casual philandering with an intern, perjury, and eventual impeachment paved the way for a whole group of kids who can't see this as being wrong or immoral.

Posted by: omgwtf | Dec 10, 2007 3:52:00 PM

Were they of age of consent? Off the clock? I mean I believe the age of consent is 16 in Washington D.C..

I mean were there actual laws broken here? Just curious.

Posted by: Jenn | Dec 10, 2007 4:00:06 PM

"Nahhh, the Pages are following the examples of all the Republican lawmakers.


Posted by: FormerRepub | Dec 10, 2007 2:38:37 PM"

What? You must be confusing the Bush administration with the Clintoon administration as I don't remember hearing anything about Bush getting in trouble for playing hide the cigar and have oral sex with an intern in the oval office or anyone for that matter (let alone someone that wasn't his wife) but I do seem to remember someone named Bill Clinton doing so!

Posted by: Liberty or Death | Dec 10, 2007 4:02:10 PM

I'm sure all of the pages that were performing these deeds were from Texas. The average IQ of a Texan is 85, which is the lowest end of the "normal" range.

Posted by: Brian birchall, rancher | Dec 10, 2007 4:08:12 PM

Isn't this behavior the San Francisco values that Pelosi champions? What's her problem?

Posted by: honest abe | Dec 10, 2007 4:11:38 PM

More selective outrage and hypocrisy from the Democrats.

They knew about waterboarding in 2002, said nothing and now are "outraged". They said there were WMDs in Iraq in 2001 and that we should invade but now they are "outraged".

They were opposed to Mark Foley and wanted him to resign but wont say anything about liar Pelosi who knew about this stuff for months and said nothing.

Dems are not fit to run this country.

Posted by: LOL | Dec 10, 2007 4:19:54 PM

Poster "LOL" chose the right name - he/she is saying that the Democrats knew the Republicans were doing stupid and terrible things, but said nothing at the time, and were only outraged later, and therefore the Democrats are not fit to run the country. LOL! This is supposed to make me believe the the people doing the stupid and terrible things ARE fit to run the country?

Posted by: amused bystander | Dec 10, 2007 4:57:12 PM

Wait you are confused. This is the training for the White Hose intern program.

Posted by: Monica | Dec 10, 2007 5:11:45 PM

THis is an outrage!

Whats that?

It was a Democrat who knew this was going on and did nothing about it, and probably covered it up?

Oh, then its no big deal. Hillary in '08!!!!

Posted by: Liberal Democrat | Dec 10, 2007 5:21:19 PM

"As a mother and a grandmother, nothing is more important to me than the safety and security of our House pages," Pelosi said in a statement.

Nancy, Nancy, Nancy. The did feel safe and secure. They were indiscreet. They were people of low character that should have been screened out of the Congressional Page Program. Too bad low-life democrats are not screened out as well.

Posted by: Larry H | Dec 10, 2007 5:37:34 PM

Yikes! Don't you folks on the right know that nothing is wrong or immoral on the left. Nancy can't be outraged when this is considered simply expected and normal behaviour. She had no real interest in "protecting" the children.

Posted by: Larry | Dec 10, 2007 6:12:00 PM

Since most members of Congress are little more than "prostitutes" who sell votes and influence instead of sex, this page behavior seems somehow not too surprising. At least Bush knows he's unpopular and acts like it, but members of Congress with their record low approval ratings don't seem to have a clue!

However I do strongly disagree with Brian Ross crashing members parties with lobbyists and special interests. When Congress is more unpopular as an insistution than Bush, they deserve to sell their votes and influence in private.

Posted by: Chris | Dec 10, 2007 6:26:42 PM

So the Dems were covering this up. They should be forced our of office and Pelosi should resign her leadership as Hastert did. Pelosi hasn't improved anything -- what kind of a mother and grandmother is she? The kind that would encourage her children to do as Bill Clinton has done: lie and cheat; and we all know that oral sex isn't really sex because Bill Clinton said so.

Posted by: Don | Dec 10, 2007 6:44:03 PM

I think it's unfair of this website to require typing a code before the comment will be accepted. I have poor eyesight and the number "3" or "8" with lines thru them look the same to me. Why can't the code be clearer?

Posted by: Don | Dec 10, 2007 6:57:42 PM

Whats wrong with it? Isn't this the example that Billary is showing to America?

Posted by: Tom | Dec 10, 2007 7:00:43 PM

What parent in their right mind would send their underage child to DC unsupervised and working for a politician? The page program should be terminated or changed to university aged students. 15-16 year olds do not have the maturity to live on their own without parental supervision.

Where is the religious right outrage? Any other time you would be screaming your heads off about anything to do with SEX.

Posted by: Me | Dec 10, 2007 7:07:15 PM

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