Benefits
The job of page comes with many perks. These include, but are not limited to:
- Watching the political action up close.
- Access to most areas of the Capitol (such as the Senate Chamber, Marble Room, cloakrooms, and Senate lobby), a perk that many other Senate employees don't have.
- Boarding on Capitol Hill with teenagers from all around the country.
- A chance to watch joint sessions of Congress, as well as the State of the Union Address.
- The opportunity to make use of the Library of Congress, United States Senate Library, and other facilities in the Capitol.
- A chance to tour and see much of what Washington, DC as well as surrounding areas and states have to offer.
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Famous quotes containing the word benefits:
“In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“When your parents are in political life, you aren’t normal. Everybody talks about the benefits, but I don’t know what the benefits are.... But I’d rather have that kind of mother than an overweight housewife.”
—Katherine Berman Mariano (b. 1957)
“I do seriously believe that if we can measure among the States the benefits resulting from the preservation of the Union, the rebellious States have the larger share. It destroyed an institution that was their destruction. It opened the way for a commercial life that, if they will only embrace it and face the light, means to them a development that shall rival the best attainments of the greatest of our States.”
—Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)