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Revision as of 00:30, 3 April 2006
Season: 2
Episode: 17
Title: The Stackhouse Filibuster
Airdate: March 14, 2001
The President's (Martin Sheen) staff waits impatiently for an elderly but stubborn Senator (George Coe) to yield the floor as he stages a marathon filibuster hoping to stave off a vote on Bartlet's Family Wellness Act bill while Toby (Richard Schiff) is leery of the Vice President's (Tim Matheson) sudden interest in supporting another bill tightening fuel-emission standards. It's eventually uncovered that the Senator is holding out for more money for autism research, and that his grandson is autistic. Knowing the truth, the staff decide to help out the Senator and make his act worthwhile.
Elsewhere: C.J. (Allison Janney) anxiously paws through her memory as she seeks to locate a missing ceramic cat statue given to the President by a Mideastern potentate who expects to see it displayed during his upcoming visit; Josh (Bradley Whitford) strains to finish business in time to catch a flight for a weekend visit to the spring-training camp of the New York Mets in Florida.
Quotes:
"Mr. Vice President, what do you know that I don't?"-Toby Ziegler
"Toby, the total tonnage of what I know that you don't could stun a team of oxen in its tracks."- Vice President Hoynes