Legislative staffer is a general occupational term used todescribe occupations that aid state and federal legislativebranches, such as congress and the senate, regardless of theirpartisan or nonpartisan affiliation. The lowest ranking job to thehighest seat short of legislator can be considered a legislativestaffer. Within the rankings, there are partisan legislativestaffers and nonpartisan legislative staffers. Partisan andnonpartisan staffers have two separate functions.A partisan legislative staffer is chosen by their party, houseor legislator. Partisan staffers are employed to work on whatevertheir legislator wishes for them to do. This means a partisanlegislative staffer may research, compose information or documentsfor their legislators, work with media outlets, work as lawyers forth