On July 14, 1983, the House Ethics Committee recommended that Rep. Dan Crane (R-IL) and Rep. Gerry Studds (D-MA) be reprimanded for having engaged in sexual relationships with minors, specifically 17-year-old congressional pages.
The Congressional Report found that in 1980, a year after entering office, Crane had sex four or five times at his suburban apartment with a female page and in 1973, the year he entered office, Studds invited a male page, who testified he felt no ill will towards Studds, to his Georgetown apartment and later on a two-week trip to Portugal.
[2] On July 20, 1983, the House voted by a supermajority to revise the reprimand recommendation to censure, a more extreme measure.
According to The New York Times, after the censure was read, Crane, escorted by a friend, quickly left the chamber.
[6] Studds gave up his right to a public hearing reluctantly, saying that he objected to the conclusions of the Ethics Committee but wanted to protect the privacy of the pages involved[7] and that the affair was a "mutually voluntary, private relationship between adults.