The Lame Duck Congress

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“The Lame Duck Congress”
The West Wing episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 28
Guest stars	Timothy Busfield Emily Procter Eugene Lazarev Mike Starr NiCole Robinson David Kaufman Richard Tanner Tegan West Brian Stepanek Wayne Wilderson
Written by	Aaron Sorkin (teleplay) Lawrence O'Donnell Jr. (story)
Directed by	Jeremy Kagan
Production no.	226206
Original airdate
Season 2 episodes
In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, Part I In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, Part II The Midterms In This White House And It's Surely To Their Credit The Lame Duck Congress The Portland Trip Shibboleth Galileo Noël The Leadership Breakfast The Drop-In Bartlet's Third State of the Union The War at Home Ellie Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail The Stackhouse Filibuster 17 People Bad Moon Rising The Fall's Gonna Kill You 18th and Potomac Two Cathedrals
List of The West Wing episodes

"The Lame Duck Congress" is the 28th episode of The West Wing.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

1 Plot
2 Trivia
3 Quotes
4 External link

[edit] Plot

Josh, Toby and Sam want the President to consider calling a lame-duck session of Congress to try to pass a nuclear test-ban treaty, and C.J. leaks news of this to Danny—who initiated the story in the first place by asking if the White House was "considering" calling the session. Meanwhile, Donna goes on the warpath over carpal-tunnel syndrome; Sam and Ainsley (Emily Procter) teach each other a thing or two; and a Ukrainian reformer (Eugene Lazarev) shows up—drunk—at the White House, demanding to see the President.

[edit] Trivia

Emily Procter noted that like her character Ainsley she loves to eat all the time.

[edit] Quotes

Bartlet: Charlie, could I have a couple of aspirin or a weapon to kill people with?

Leo: Can't you keep your people in line?
Josh: Well, there's been no evidence of it so far.