"The Stackhouse Filibuster" is the 39th episode of The West Wing.
It's Friday night; The West Wing is expecting a legislative victory in the passing of a Family Wellness Bill in the US Senate, and the staff is preparing to leave for the weekend. Suddenly, an unexpected filibuster of the bill commences. The filibustering senator is the eldery Howard Stackhouse, a Democrat from Minnesota. The staff is caught off guard and C.J. keeps the communicati...
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"The Stackhouse Filibuster" is the 39th episode of The West Wing.
It's Friday night; The West Wing is expecting a legislative victory in the passing of a Family Wellness Bill in the US Senate, and the staff is preparing to leave for the weekend. Suddenly, an unexpected filibuster of the bill commences. The filibustering senator is the eldery Howard Stackhouse, a Democrat from Minnesota. The staff is caught off guard and C.J. keeps the communications team in the White House for as long as the filibuster lasts.
The episode is told via the dramatic device of three of the main characters e-mailing their respective parents to apprise them what's going on. C. J. Cregg is explaining to her father why she cannot attend his 70th birthday celebration; Josh Lyman is writing to thank his mother for a pair of shoes; and Sam Seaborn is writing to his father in an attempt to thaw the atmosphere between them following the disclosure of his dad's (28-year) affair. Everyone is at rather a loose end,...
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