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SUMMARY: Researching Obama's White House: the case of the healthcare bill 
 - A seminar by the creators of the BBC 2 documentary series ‘Inside Obam
 a’s White House’ - Paul Mitchell and Sarah Wallis
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CONTACT:Dr Adam Coutts
DESCRIPTION:A seminar by the creators of the BBC 2 documentary series ‘I
 nside Obama’s White House’\n\nChaired by Dr Finbarr Livesey\n\nWe are 
 pleased to welcome Paul Mitchell and Sarah Wallis (Directors / Exec produc
 ers) to talk about how they set up and conducted research on the Obama adm
 inistration to inform the series of programmes recently aired on BBC 2. Th
 e talk will examine how they made the lengthy research process comprehensi
 ble to a mass audience about what actually happened within the policy-maki
 ng process and administration.\n\nThe presentation will focus on Episode 2
 : Obamacare. Using footage from the series Paul and Sarah will examine the
  complicated parliamentary procedures of the US Senate - the need for a 3/
 5 majority on cloture motions to end debate and how Obama used ‘budget r
 econciliation’ to pass the healthcare bill when he unexpectedly lost his
  60th vote.\n\nFor anyone interested in recent American politics and the c
 urrent election campaign this seminar is a must attend!\n\nA lunch will be
  served prior to the seminar.\n\nLink to series: http://www.bbc.co.uk/prog
 rammes/b074g0gt\n\nSPEAKER BIOS\nPaul Mitchell has produced films on subje
 cts as diverse as the history of Perestroika: The Second Russian Revolutio
 n\; The Iraq War for the BBC/National Geographic Channel\, the Emmy-winnin
 g Watergate (Discovery/BBC)\, Channel 4's A Marriage of Power on the Clint
 on Presidency\, rock and roll in the USSR  -The Alternative Rock and Roll 
 Years and frontline war reporting from Chechnya for PBS WideAngle: Greetin
 gs from Grozny.  The Death of Yugoslavia (1995) is one of the British Film
  Institute's top 100 greatest British television programs of any genre eve
 r to have been screened. His films have won the du-Pont Columbia Journalis
 m award\, the Peabody (four times)\, the Emmy\, the BAFTA\, the Royal Tele
 vision Society Award\, the New York Festival\, and the Greirson awards.  H
 is most recent projects are Russia's Open Book: Writing under Putin\, on m
 odern Russian fiction on PBS  and the BBC's Inside the Obama White House.\
 n\nSarah Wallis is an author and documentary-maker. Credits include Letter
 s from St Petersburg\, The People's Century (which won both the DuPont Pea
 body and an Emmy award for her episode\, "Master Race")\; and Homecoming\,
  about Alexander Solzhenitsyn's return to Russia (Royal Television Society
  Award).  She is co-author of two acclaimed histories\, A War in Words (Si
 mon & Schuster) and We Were Young and at War (Harper Collins).  Her most r
 ecent projects are Russia's Open Book: Writing under Putin\, with Paul Mit
 chell and directing Obamacare\, the second episode in the BBC series Insid
 e Obama's White House. \n\n
LOCATION: Room S2\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, CB
 3 9DT
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