Pelosi promises steps to protect pages

[deadparrot]

WASHINGTON - Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi said Monday she will take legislative steps to better protect House pages after the scandal involving a congressman sending salacious e-mails to former male pages.

Pelosi, D-Calif., said legislation would be introduced early in the new Congress to increase oversight of the page program, require regular meetings of the page board and add a parent of a current and a former page on that board.

"The Page School is a national treasure, and the young people who attend it and work in the Congress are our special trust," she said in a statement. "We must do all we can to protect them."

Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record), R-Fla., resigned last September after it was revealed that he had sent e-mails and other electronic messages to male former pages with sexually graphic topics.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061211/ap_on_go_co/pelosi_pages

[Monkeyman]

1. I posted during the day one comment

http://democraticleader.house.gov

[Tom Joad]

2. This may be the only accomplishment of the current Congress.

She has promised no investigation of Bush Crimes.
She has promised not to end funding for the illegal Iraq war.


I am counting on Nancy not to fondle or bother House pages.

[Monkeyman]

3. First Waxman will decide about investiation in to Bush's war policy

Second she said she would fund the troops. But do a investigation into spending trying to find the 9 billion missing there. Let it play out

[katsy]

6. I was just thinking the same thing...

Think again, Nancy. Democrats didn't win because voters just wanted to protect pages.

[Vidar]

4. Glad you have something substantive for your legacy, Nancy.

[opihimoimoi]

5. All Nancy gatta do is ban those Pubs from contacting any page period...

[IndianaGreen]

7. We know that Dennis Hastert didn't do jackshit to protect the pages

and no one has been punished for this travesty!