Rep. Kolbe visited Grand Canyon with pages
Park Service workers, office staffers accompanied group during 1996 trip
By Jim Popkin and Aram Roston
NBC News
Updated: 5:22 a.m. ET Oct. 11, 2006
WASHINGTON - Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-Ariz.) took two male pages with him on a three-day camping trip in 1996, former congressional pages and National Park Service officials have told NBC News.
The pages, who were 17 at the time, went rafting and camping with Kolbe in the Grand Canyon over the July 4th holiday that year.
A spokeswoman for Kolbe confirmed the overnight trip but said that the pages did not travel alone with Kolbe.
The congressman's sister, along with office staffers and several Park Service employees, traveled with Kolbe and the pages, Kolbe spokeswoman Korenna Cline said.
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