Vick misses lobbying appearance on Capitol Hill
ATLANTA -- Michael Vick gets an incomplete from Congress.

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The Falcons quarterback was scheduled to lobby on Capitol Hill, hoping to persuade lawmakers to increase funding for after-school programs. But Vick missed a connecting flight in Atlanta and failed to show for his Tuesday morning appearance.
Vick's publicist, Susan Bass, said it wasn't his fault. The quarterback was in Tampa, Fla., on Monday to play in teammate Warrick Dunn's charity golf tournament, then caught a flight to Atlanta that was supposed to arrive in time for him to make another flight to Reagan National Airport in northern Virginia.
But the AirTran flight was late leaving Tampa, Vick missed his connection and wound up stuck in Atlanta, Bass said.
"He was really mad," Bass said.
AirTran, which has an endorsement deal with Vick, gave a different account of Vick's travel arrangements. While acknowledging that the flight from Florida was late getting into Atlanta, causing him to miss his 8:35 p.m. connection, airline spokesman Tad Hutcheson said the player was booked on a 10:50 p.m. flight.
Vick failed to show and the flight left Atlanta with about 20 empty seats, Hutcheson said.
Vick's mother, Brenda Boddie, accepted an award from the Afterschool Alliance on her son's behalf. The quarterback was honored for his foundation's work with after-school projects in Georgia and Virginia.
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