Josh Lyman's pragmatic push for a welfare bill compromise with marriage incentives clashes interpersonally with Amy Gardner's principled activist mobilization to derail it as cynical pandering.

Josh arrives at Amy's apartment for a promised stew dinner amid lighthearted banter and Van Morrison on the radio, but domestic bliss shatters when Amy probes his meeting with Pintero. …

Late at night outside the WLC building, Josh ambushes Amy after her late meeting, grilling her on PAC costs and her aggressive phone-banking in the Bible Belt to expose weak …