President Obama’s loss is How I Met Your Mother‘s gain.

Kal Penn — who put the brakes on his acting career two years ago when he traded in his regular gig on House for a job in the Obama administration — is returning to TV with a major recurring role on How I Met Your Mother, sources confirm to TVLine exclusively.

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First Anne Dudek, then Jennifer Morrison, and now Kal Penn. It seems everyone who leaves Princeton Plainsboro winds up at MacClarens! =D