There has recently been another scandal at Capitol Hill. It involves Mark Foley, a former Republican. He has been sending explicit e-mails to an underage male House page. A Congressional page is a teenager who lives at Capitol Hill and goes to school while they intern in the House and Senate. “ Six-term Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) resigned yesterday amid reports that he had sent sexually explicit Internet messages to at least one underage male former page”. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/29/AR2006092901574.html Tony Snow stated “I hate to tell you, but it’s not always pretty up there on Capitol Hill. And there have been other scandals, as you know, that have been more than simply naughty e-mails.” http://leisureguy.wordpress.com/2006/10/02/tony-snow-theyre-just-naughty-emails/ There has been other incidents with the Congessional pages, so the changed the age to enroll from 14 to 16. The have been two other scandals with them that the society knows about. Tony Snow was speaking on CNN to a newswoman named O’Brien, when he said that quote. He was trying to do some damage control being the White House Press Secretary.  http://tailrank.com/618052/they-re-just-naughty-emails. He. He was trying to make people a little more smpathetic to Mark Foley and make it seem like the boy did something wrong too, and said that they needed to explore both sides of the story. The quote was pretty accurate, because there was a scandal with Representatives Daniel B. Crane, Republican of Illinois, and Gerry E. Studds, Democrat of Massachusetts. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103×238085. However, the part that Mr. Snow said afterward was not accurate at all. He was saying that they needed to explore the boys story, but they already knew the story and how he had said nothing wrong.

All the URLs used:

http://tailrank.com/618052/they-re-just-naughty-emails

http://tailrank.com/618052/they-re-just-naughty-emails

http://leisureguy.wordpress.com/2006/10/02/tony-snow-theyre-just-naughty-emails/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103×238085

http://www.tuftsdaily.com/media/storage/paper856/news/2006/10/02/News/Foleys.Creepy.EMails.No.Surprise.Tufts.Student.Says-2319102.shtml?norewrite200610102105&sourcedomain=www.tuftsdaily.com

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/29/AR2006092901574.html

http://tailrank.com/610919/GOP-House-leadership-and-Mark-Foley

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061008/ap_on_go_co/democrats_foley

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/02/greenfield.foley/index.html

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