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:
“Unfortunately, we cannot rely solely on employers seeing that it is in their self-interest to change the workplace. Since the benefits of family-friendly policies are long-term, they may not be immediately visible or quantifiable; companies tend to look for success in the bottom line. On a deeper level, we are asking those in power to change the rules by which they themselves succeeded and with which they identify.”
—Anne C. Weisberg (20th century)
“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)
“It is with benefits as with injuries in this respect, that we do not so much weigh the accidental good or evil they do us, as that which they were designed to do us.—That is, we consider no part of them so much as their intention.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)