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Having had much experience in leadership training and two sons who have excelled in their own careers, at times I am asked by my friends with high-school-age kids for ways to help them develop important leadership skills. One of the internship programs I have always recommended they consider is the House of Representatives’ Page program. I am sad to say, that program is no longer available to them.

On August 8, without discussion or prior warning, House Speaker John Boehner and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi issued a joint news release that effectively ended the nearly 200-year-old program (which arguably had been in use in some form since the first Continental Congress in 1789). Why was there no warning, no discussion, and no notice to members concerning cancelling this program that is an important part of our nation’s history?

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