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The Stackhouse Filibuster

The Stackhouse Filibuster

Season	2
Episode	17
Written By	Aaron Sorkin
Story By	Pete McCabe
Director	Bryon Gordon
Original Airdate	March 14, 2001
Guest Stars:	Tim Matheson George Coe Cara DeLizia

President Jed Bartlet's (Martin Sheen) staff waits impatiently for elderly but stubborn Senator Howard Stackhouse (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. Meanwhile, Toby (Richard Schiff) is leery of the Vice President's (Tim Matheson) sudden interest in supporting another bill tightening fuel-emission standards. Donna (Janel Moloney) discovers that Stackhouse 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.

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Tim Matheson as John Hoynes

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George Coe as Senator Howard Stackhouse
Cara DeLizia as Winifred Hooper

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Season 2
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	Season 3 ...