"Previously on the West Wing" spoken by Leo President Bartlet (Martin Sheen) considers the extraordinary option of recalling the Senate from a winter holiday to push through a ratification of a new nuclear test-ban treaty - despite the lame duck status of many Senators who will not return in the next session. Meanwhile, a drunken Ukrainian member of Parliament, Vasily Konanov (Eugene Lazarev) thunders through the White House demanding to see the President.