One long day at the White House is book-ended by two staff games of poker. Mr. Willis of Ohio, a temporary Congressman who assumed his wife's office after her death, manages to surprise a jaded Toby when he actually agrees to listen to arguments over a bill instead of blindly following the advice of fellow Party members. While Mandy and Toby spend all day discussing the census with Mr. Willis and two frustrated Congressmen, CJ admits to Sam that she doesn't understand the sampling versus counting argument and asks for his help. President Bartlet tells Josh to take Charlie out for a drink, and Sam, CJ, Mallory, and Zoey end up coming along, with dangerous results. Meanwhile, Leo finally tells the President that Jenny left him.

Starring:

ROB LOWE as Sam Seaborn
DULÉ HILL as Charlie Young
ALLISON JANNEY as C.J. Cregg
MOIRA KELLY as Mandy Hampton
RICHARD SCHIFF as Toby Ziegler
JOHN SPENCER as Leo McGarry
BRADLEY WHITFORD as Josh Lyman
and MARTIN SHEEN as President Josiah Bartlet

Toby:  Do you call or raise, sir?

Bartlet:  It depends.

Josh:  Depends on what?

Bartlet:  There are fourteen punctuation marks in standard English grammar.  Can anyone name them, please?

CJ:  Period

Josh:  Comma.

Mandy:  Colon.

Sam:  Semi-colon.

Josh:  Dash.

Sam:  Hyphen.

Leo:  Apostrophe.

Bartlet:  That's only seven; there are seven more.

Toby:  Question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parentheses, braces, and ellipses.

CJ:  Oooh.

Toby:  Do you call or raise, sir?

Bartlet:  There are three words in the English language and three words only that begin with the letters dw.  

Josh:  This is a pretty good illustration of why we get nothing done.

CJ:  Explain it to me.

Sam:  The Constitution mandates that every ten years, we count everybody.

CJ:  Why?

Sam:  Because representation at the various levels of the government -- federal, state, and municipal -- is based on population.  The only way to find out how many Congressmen California gets is to count the people in California.  Got it?

CJ:  Can I just say that if the briefing book had been written that clearly, I would have easily understood.

Sam:  We're not done yet.