This is the Daily Civil Podcast for Friday, September 1st.

I'm Virginia Allen.

Today is the third and final installment for our series on how Congress really works.

And we're pulling back the curtain on committees and the purpose of hearings today with Chief

Council for the Heritage Foundation Oversight Project, Kyle Brosnan, and Kyle, you have had

multiple stints working on Capitol Hill.

You also worked for the Trump administration.

Talk for a moment first if you would just a little bit about some of the roles that you

had on Capitol Hill.

Sure, and thank you very much for having me.

So I started as an intern, as an undergraduate.

I worked for a congressman from New York in his personal office, answering phones, doing

the mail, helping out with letter writing, stuff like that.

And that's sort of where I got hooked for it, for it to work on the Hill.

So I returned to the Hill in law school, where I served as a law clerk to Senator John McCain

on the permanent subcommittee on investigations.

My last year of law school and shortly after graduation, and after the Republicans took the

Senate back after the 2014 elections, was lucky enough to get hired on as a counsel for

the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee under Senator Ron Johnson when

he started his chairmanship there.

It's for him for about four years.

Went into the Trump administration at both Department of Homeland Security and Department

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