U.S. Senate Page

prankityclankity
Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:24:30 +0000

Riot- You don’t get community service hours (cause it’s not) you do get paid though. You won’t fit in well either if you do this program to only pad your resume.

Channelswimmer- I never said you HAD to be connected, but it certianly helps more so than it does in the house program. A lot of the senate pages I talked to had the opportunity handed to them, for example one girl’s grandfather was the chief of staff of the senator, so the kids who did apply got shafted. There were many examples of things such as this I heard. Even the leaders of the House program know. And there were WAY more then 25-27 Senate pages.

hardworker- No, a lot of pages on the house side had NO connections whatsoever, including me. I know a couple of people did, but not many. So if you don’t know anyone – or your parents don’t, then don’t fret. I was a House page from '06-'07. There were three other kids from Illinois, so our state was pretty well represented. Also, I didn’t take the SAT or PSAT and I got in. It’s not a factor, you do need good grades however. PM me if you have anymore questions, because when I was applying to be a page there was hardly any info. on the net, so I’ll be glad to help you.

In my opinion, I think SkyHawkk is absolutely correct. During the state of the union the house pages were crammed in the back of the chamber. After about 15 minutes, the Senate pages arrived (it was a joint session). They started pushing through cause they thought they were entitled to a good spot and then a couple of the Senate boys jumped over the railing where the house members were sitting so they could get to the other side (I guess they weren’t familiar with the floor plan of the chamber because you couldn’t get to the other side because of the center aisle the president uses) The secret service got ****ed and then more Senate pages got kicked out for bringing cameras. How rude.