Pelosi orders review of page program

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Friday ordered the House Page Board to scrutinize the supervision and security policies at the page dorm after two House GOP lawmakers resigned from the board amid complaints that that they were not informed about page infractions.
 
“Since enacting our bipartisan reforms unanimously in January, the House enforces a zero-tolerance policy for page misconduct,” she said. “That is why the House pages involved in each of these serious incidents were immediately expelled and sent home.
 
{mosads}“The House Page Board must undertake an immediate and thorough review of the adequacy of the supervision and security at the page dorm. As a mother and a grandmother, nothing is more important to me than the safety and security of our House pages.”
 
Republican Reps. Ginny Brown-Waite (Fla.) and Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.) resigned from the board Thursday because they said they were not informed about the dismissals of some pages for shoplifting and others for engaging in inappropriate sexual activity.
 
The new problems at the board follow last year’s scandal involving former Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.), who resigned from Congress after sexually explicit e-mails he had sent to pages became public. Many attributed the GOP’s loss of the House in last year’s elections in part to that and other scandals.