 Frank meets with Congressman Donald Blythe ( Reed Birney ) , a committed progressive liberal who has long pushed for education reform , with whom the Walker administration wants to work on a bill . Frank dismisses his proposal as too ambitious and asks him to rewrite it . Frank secretly passes a copy of Blythe ’ s proposal to Zoe . He then meets with Senator Catherine Durant ( Jayne Atkinson ) and suggests that she ought to consider seeking the nomination for Secretary of State . He also privately confronts Congressman Russo about his arrest and checkered history of substance abuse and soliciting prostitutes , and demands Russo ’ s loyalty in exchange for making the incident disappear . 
 Frank <a href='uninflect' title='1'><mark>meets</mark></a> with Congressman Donald Blythe ( Reed Birney ) , a committed progressive liberal <a href='null_relcl' title='2'><mark>who</mark></a><a href='been_done' title='3'><mark>has</mark></a> long pushed for education reform , with whom the Walker administration <a href='uninflect' title='4'><mark>wants</mark></a> to work on a bill . Frank <a href='uninflect' title='5'><mark>dismisses</mark></a> his proposal as too ambitious and <a href='uninflect' title='6'><mark>asks</mark></a> him to rewrite it . Frank secretly <a href='uninflect' title='7'><mark>passes</mark></a> a copy of Blythe ’ <a href='null_genetive' title='8'><mark>s</mark></a>proposal to Zoe . He then <a href='uninflect' title='9'><mark>meets</mark></a> with Senator Catherine Durant ( Jayne Atkinson ) and <a href='uninflect' title='10'><mark>suggests</mark></a> that she ought to consider seeking the nomination for Secretary of State . He also privately <a href='uninflect' title='11'><mark>confronts</mark></a> Congressman Russo about his arrest and checkered history of substance abuse and soliciting prostitutes , and <a href='uninflect' title='12'><mark>demands</mark></a> Russo <a href='null_genetive' title='13'><mark>’</mark></a><a href='null_genetive' title='14'><mark>s</mark></a>loyalty in exchange for making the incident disappear . 
Frank meet wit Congressman Donald Blythe ( Reed Birney ) , a committed progressive liberal done long pushed for education reform , with whom da Walker administration want to wrk on a bill . Frank dismiss his proposal as too ambitious and ask him to rewrite it . Frank secretly pass a copy of Blythe ’  proposal to Zoe . He then meet with rep Catherine Durant ( Jayne Atkinson ) and suggest that she ought to consider seeking tdanomination fir Secretary of State . He also privately confront Congressman Russo about his arrest and checkered history of substance abuse and soliciting prostitutes , and demand Russo   loyalty in exchange for wit the incident disappear .