When Chairman Jim Himes first floated the idea of having the House Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth film a documentary as its final product, it went over like a lead balloon.
“Oh, everybody didn’t understand what we were doing,” said Eric Harris, the committee’s communications director and, along with Himes, a producer and co-creator of “Grit & Grace: The Fight for the American Dream.”
“We spoke with countless ethics lawyers, House Administration lawyers, general counsel — we had to talk with different documentarians to figure out if we could even pull something off like this,” Harris said.
