Armed with a new documentary and support from alumni including lawmakers and even former page and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, former House pages are launching a bid to restore the program killed in 2011 after a nearly 200-year run.

“We have a page corps that is large and loyal, and we’re ready to work hard to bring back the program, and I think we can,” said Jonathan Turley, the nationally recognized legal scholar who was a House page in the late 1970s.