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Written by Staff Reports
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Thursday, 11 March 2010 20:00 |
Catherine Yanko, an eighth-grader at St. Vincent de Paul school, recently served as an Indiana House Page during the 2010 session of the Indiana General Assembly. As a page, she spent 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.
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