Roll Call
Heard on the Hill
By Emily Heil and Elizabeth Brotherton
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
With March Madness in full swing, a bipartisan group of Members of Congress will aim for its own hoop dreams tonight, facing off against members of the Georgetown University law school faculty in the annual Home Court charity basketball game.
With Sens. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) and John Thune (R-S.D.) at the helm, the Members - known as the Hill's Angels - will challenge the legal professors - the Hoya Lawyas - to raise money for the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, the largest provider of legal services for homeless people in Washington.
Other Members listed on the Angels roster include Reps. Michael Arcuri (D-N.Y.), Joe Baca (D-Calif.) John Boccieri (D-Ohio), André Carson (D-Ind.), Brad Ellsworth (D-Ind.), Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), Gene Green (D-Texas), Frank Kratovil (D-Md.), Kendrick Meek (D-Fla.), Patrick Murphy (D-Pa.) and Laura Richardson (D-Calif.).
The Angels are coming off a big win in last year's matchup, when the team defeated the lawyers 48-42 (and helped raise more than $335,000 for the clinic).
Tickets to this year's matchup cost $20 (which includes a souvenir T-shirt!).
Notably, the game is being held at the Thurgood Marshall Academy, a public charter school with its own ties to Capitol Hill: Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) allocated federal funds to help renovate the school and its state-of-the-art gymnasium.