Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite has released a letter that says the director of the House page program brought in “the operator of an abortion clinic” to speak to the young pages.

“When I spoke to one irate parent, they made the comment that, ‘I didn’t send my kid to Washington, D.C., to become knowledgeable about abortion techniques’….I understand that this speaker was brought in without approval of the Page Board, but no disciplinary action has been taken,” the GOP lawmaker wrote in the letter.

Brown-Waite resigned from the House Page Board last week after two teens were expelled for shoplifting and two others were caught performing oral sex in front of other pages, who were touching themselves. Former Congressman Mark Foley resigned last year after he was caught sending sexual instant messages to male pages.

The semester for the current crop of sex-loving pages ends Friday.

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Republican Reps. Ginny Brown-Waite and Shelly Moore Capito have resigned from the House of Representatives board that oversees young pages after one teenage female page was caught performing oral sex on a male page as a group of other adolescent pages looked on — with one source suggesting to Big Head DC that at least one of the peeping pages was touching himself as he watched.

Brown-Waite told the Washington Post that the situation made her feel “very, very uncomfortable,” and she believes Congressional leaders have not done enough to supervise pages who come to Washington each year to learn, supposedly, about politics in action.

“I thought the Mark Foley incident was a wake-up call,” Brown-Waite told the paper. “Apparently it wasn’t.”

The oral sex incident resulted in the recent expulsions of two pages. Other pages have been caught shoplifting in recent weeks.

The House clerk’s office tonight released a statement acknowledging Brown-Waite’s resignation and welcoming “constructive criticism” and “ideas for further improvement,” but also defending current oversight of the page program.

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