WASHINGTON (AP) -- The incoming chairman of the congressional Page Board said Thursday he hopes the panel will meet monthly and expand its membership to help prevent another scandal.

Rep. Dale Kildee, D-Michigan, who will become the panel's chairman when Democrats take control of the House next year, said the board should meet regularly with directors of the program's school and dormitory and those who supervise the students during their work in Congress.

Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday she intends to introduce legislation early in the new Congress to increase oversight of the page program, require regular board meetings and add a parent of a current and a former page to the board.

"I think it's a very, very good program and the problem with the program was not the pages -- it was a member and those who should have been more vigilant when this thing broke," Kildee said, referring to former Rep. Mark Foley's improper sexual advances toward male pages.