It's Amy's first day as Abbey's chief of staff and she has quite a challenge: get the President to veto his own foreign-aid bill. In environmental news, a college friend of Toby's has an ethical problem involving the EPA; and a glacier in Alaska has melted, causing 14 flood deaths. And there's a social note: Zoey is to be installed into the DAR at a White House fete. But Abbey's membership is being challenged because, it seems, her "qualifying" ancestor was a pirate.