House Leadership

Reporters hurl accusations at House leadership, piercing the briefing room frenzy with queries on their covert role in the school voucher showdown engulfing President Bartlet's agenda. This tight-knit cadre wields commanding sway over House maneuvers, their suspected meddling igniting partisan infernos that C.J. battles to contain amid a tanker catastrophe's chaotic eruption, exposing fractures in congressional-executive fault lines.