Olympia Buckland

persistent influential child-welfare focused

Olympia Buckland sponsors an infant-mortality initiative that the White House initially blocked from committee over high costs. President Bartlet overrides this stance on a holiday afternoon, directing Josh Lyman to fold her bill—or a version of it—into the HHS budget before January 1 printing. Her proposal drives a last-minute policy scramble, forcing staff to rewrite federal allocations under moral pressure from the President, who pivots from fiscal caution to urgent action.

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Olympia Buckland's Journey

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S4E11 · Holy Night

An Impossible Budget: Bartlet's Emergency Infant‑Mortality Mandate

Not present; her position is externally invoked and therefore passive here — likely hopeful if she knew, but onstage only as policy text.

Referenced as the sponsor of the infant‑mortality bill that the administration previously shelved for cost reasons; her policy now becomes the immediate object of the President's moral intervention.

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S4E11 · Holy Night

Donna Mobilizes the Infant‑Mortality Push

Not present; likely unaware or hopeful if informed later.

Olympia Buckland is referenced as the sponsor of the infant‑mortality bill; she is not present but her initiative is the object of the President's order and will be operationalized by …

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