A place in the Congressional Page program is one of the most sought after positions in Washington, DC for young people. Your interest in the Congressional Page Program is a positive indication that you are a concerned American citizen with a curiosity to learn and contribute significantly to the role of the Legislative Branch of our government. Perhaps your experience as a Page will provide the foundation for a future in services to the United States as it has with Pages of past generations. Several Members of Congress began as a Congressional Page.

Pages are young people who are hired to serve as support staff for the U.S. House of Representatives. They are students in their junior year of high school and at least sixteen years old on the date they begin their Page term. No exceptions.

The Page will come to Washington, DC to live, work and study. This Program, which includes the House Page Residence Hall, the House Page School and work responsibilities within the House of Representatives, is administered by the Office of the Clerk, pursuant to directions from the Majority and Minority leadership and the U.S. House of Representatives Page Board. Pages have served the House for over 200 years. Pages are paid House employees during their tenure.

There are 72 Page positions each year with the possibility of over 400 Members of Congress wishing to recommend young people. All students must be sponsored by a Member of Congress to become a Page.

Representatives are notified by the Leaders Office of opportunities to nominate a Page for the upcoming spring session of the House of Representatives Page Program. The session would begin in January and conclude in June. There are currently over 400 Representatives in the House of Representatives and each Member is given a chance to select a Page to participate in the program. Representatives have no control over which year their name will be selected and he or she would be given the privilege to make a Page selection.

There are specific qualifications for the Page selection:

• the individual must possess a cumulative 3.0 or 85% GPA in order to be considered for the program
• they must take core academic courses such as English, science, foreign language, humanities and mathematics in its computations of the nominee's GPA
• courses such as physical education, band and yearbook are not considered

Students should be sure that they meet the Page School's standards for the GPA.

If a student's respective Representative was not selected for the current year, to receive a Page, they are encouraged to contact the Speaker's Office and request an application form for another Democratic/Republican Representative from the student's state of residence.