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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