A conservative Republican Congresswoman starts a political firestorm when she takes the Floor and recites a list of controversial studies that should be denied funding -- including the program on which Ellie Bartlet works. Toby tries to track down the White House staffer who leaked the information to the Representative, but Will realizes the source was much higher in the administration. Meanwhile CJ suggests a Muppet-populated PSA to rehabilitate Abbey Bartlet's image. When Josh tangles with a Judiciary Committee staffer who commiserates with him on politically motivated blocking of judicial nominees, he proposes that the President recess appoint enough judges to fill the vacancies on the Sixth Circuit.

Starring:

STOCKARD CHANNING as First Lady Abigail Bartlet
DULÉ HILL as Charlie Young
ALLISON JANNEY as C.J. Cregg
JOSHUA MALINA as Will Bailey
JANEL MOLONEY as Donna Moss
RICHARD SCHIFF as Toby Ziegler
JOHN SPENCER as Leo McGarry
BRADLEY WHITFORD as Josh Lyman
and MARTIN SHEEN as President Josiah Bartlet

Toby:  This conversation would be a whole lot easier if I weren't fighting my way through a cloud of Obsession.

CJ:  There's no cloud.

Toby:  It's about to precipitate out.  It's about to rain Obsession.

Mark Hayden:  You still smarting I had to carry your ass through Con Law?

Josh:  You did not have to carry--

Mark Hayden:  You thought strict scrutiny was a pickup technique.

Josh:  Hey, it worked on Pam Sussman.  I mean, not that well.  How is your lovely wife?

Abbey:  So, what was it?  The tube top to meet the Queen of England, or the low-rise jeans with the North Korean delegation?

CJ:  Mrs. Bartlet, the press didn't know what to make of you before the MS became  public.  You've never been the traditional hat-knitting president's wife.

Abbey:  Oh, shoot.  Was that in the handbook?  Maybe just get me a photographer and seven years' worth of yarn.

Leo:  I'm sorry, but can we really justify spending $800,000 on a bio-cultural approach to the study of female sexual fantasy and genital arousal?

Toby:  How can we afford not to?

Josh:  There's nothing I take more seriously then getting judges on the federal bench.

Donna:  How about getting judges on the Supreme Court?

Josh:  See, this is the problem.  It's always about the Supreme Court, nine guys getting all the ink.

Donna:  Actually, it's seven guys and two highly qualified female jurists.

Will:  What do CJ and Big Bird have in common?

CJ:  This'll be fun, 'cause no one's ever made a joke about me and Big Bird before.

Will:  Your heads are in Ohio and your feet are in Florida.

CJ:  Wouldn't that make us not so much tall as crooked?