The Portland Trip

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“The Portland Trip”
The West Wing episode
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 29
Written by	Aaron Sorkin (teleplay) Paul Redford (story)
Directed by	Paris Barclay
Guest stars	Timothy Busfield Emily Procter Charley Lang David Graf NiCole Robinson Michael Tomlinson Gregg Daniel
Production no.	226207
Original airdate	November 15, 2000
Season 2 episodes
In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, Part I In the Shadow of Two Gunmen, Part II The Midterms In this White House And It's Surely to Their Credit The Lame Duck Congress The Portland Trip Shibboleth Galileo Noël The Leadership Breakfast The Drop-In Bartlet's Third State of the Union The War at Home Ellie Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail The Stackhouse Filibuster 17 People Bad Moon Rising The Fall's Gonna Kill You 18th and Potomac Two Cathedrals
List of The West Wing episodes

"The Portland Trip" is the 29th episode of The West Wing.

[edit] Plot

CJ is made to join the President on a trip to Portland after making a joke about Notre Dame. Josh spends the evening discussing an anti-gay marriage bill with a gay Republican congressman. Margaret is concerned that Leo will drink after being served with divorce papers. Donna goes on a date which stunk. Charlie suggests the government offer tuition incentives in exchange for people teaching at a public school.

[edit] Trivia

Charley Lang, who played Congressman Skinner in two Season One episodes, had spoken with Aaron Sorkin about the issue of gay Republicans after his work on the No on Knight campaign, which was rallying against The Knight Initiative, which became law in 2001, prohibiting same sex marriages. He was called by show asking if he was interested in doing another episode and read in the script much of what he and Aaron discussed.