Local students recently served as Indiana House pages during the 2007 session of the Indiana General Assembly.
Kaitlyn Murphy, Warsaw Community High School sophomore, and Lakeview Middle School eighth-grader Ryan Murphy, recently served as Indiana House pages for Rep. Dave Wolkins during the 2007 session of the Indiana General Assembly.
Three Wawasee High School freshmen served as pages for Rep. Bill Ruppel: Alexander Jackson, Caleb Buyer, Nichlas Thystrup and Robert Smith.
Ruppel also had two Whitko Middle School eighth-graderserve as pages for him: Scott Skiles and Brian Menzie.
As a page, students 13 years and older spend the day gaining a greater understanding about state government and how laws are made.
Paging is a valuable experience in which students take a backstage tour of the Statehouse and work alongside legislative assistants and interns. On session days, pages experience how a bill becomes a law as they watch legislators on the House floor debate issues.
On committee days, the students witness where a bill receives first consideration and watch hearings where the public submits input.
