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https://issues.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/IRL-lede-Brent.jpg24001600Brent Blevins is a senior congressional staffer and staff director of the Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee, which is part of the US House of Representatives’ Committee on Space, Science, and Technology. On this installment of Science Policy IRL, he explains what staffers in the House and Senate do in the science policy world, and his unusual path into science policy.