![]() Barnes' story, based on the material Underwood gave her, made the Herald's front page the next morning under the headline "Education bill far left of center: Ties massive funding package to liberal mandates", causing an uproar within the administration. In his inauguration speech later that day, President Walker explicitly mentioned education reform, promising quick and immediate results. Forging an alliance with the young reporter Zoe Barnes of the Washington Herald, Underwood leaked the Blythe's education bill draft to Barnes on Monday, 21 January 2013, the day of the presidential inauguration. After leafing through it, Underwood placed it in the shredder, making Blythe believe that it is destroyed, however, unbeknownst to Blythe, Underwood stopped the process so that the document mostly stayed intact. Meeting with Underwood for the first time to discuss the education bill in Underwood's office, Blythe showed him the bill draft. Seeing it a perfect opportunity to ingratiate himself to the President and his Chief of Staff Linda Vasquez, Underwood's involvement in the education bill became the first step in his ambitious long term personal revenge plan of tearing them all down for reneging on their promise to him. However, scheming Underwood, still reeling from getting passed over for the Secretary of State post, had his own personal revenge agenda, and Walker's administration played right into his hands by entrusting him with this sensitive task. The idea on the administration's part was for Underwood to achieve this by overseeing Blythe and steering the education bill away from the left so that the ultimate goal can be reached - the education bill passing the House within 100 days of President Walker assuming office. Furthermore, Blythe's leftist politics do not at all fit with the President's who ran on a moderate platform, but the administration still wanted Blythe's input and blessing largely for cosmetic public perception purposes before letting House Majority Whip Frank Underwood take over the bill to ram it through the House. Placing education reform at the very top of their legislative agenda, the administration asked for Blythe's education bill draft, seeking to benefit in the public from his esteemed reputation despite being fully aware such a left-leaning bill could never pass in the split House of Representatives where the Democrats held only a slight majority. ![]() In January 2013, Blythe became an important figure for the newly elected President Garrett Walker's administration that wanted a quick result in education to start the Presidency off on the right foot. ![]() Season 1 Surrendering the education bill to Underwood His entire life's work has been devoted to education reform. Known as a way-left-of-center liberal, Blythe was revered as a congressman for his work in the field of education.
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