POP QUIZ: Name your Senators (sooo easy), congresswoman, your state senator, your borough pres (that’s easy), your city councilmembers (easy, too), your assemblypeople (hmmm), etc. etc.
This column will be an attempt to get to know what the Brooklyn pols are up to — the one’s that don’t get covered as much as the usuals.
ANSWERS: Senate: Hillary and Chuck; Congress: Yvette Clarke; State Senator: Martin J. Golden; Borough President: Marty; City Council: Bill De Blasio and David Yassky; Assembly: James F. Brennan (44th), Felix Ortiz (51st).
Joan Millman (52nd)

So, what’s happening with Congresswoman Yvette Clarke?

You remember, she beat out Yasky, Chris Owens and others in a very contentious race for the 11th congressional district.

We know that she supports Atlantic Yards, is of Carribbean descent, and that her morther, Dr. Una S.T. Clarke was a member of the City Council, making them the
first mother-daughter succession in the history of the New York City
Council.
      

But there’s probably a lot more to know. Where does she stand on issues that matter to the residents of Park Slope and surrounding nabes? And while I am not ready to answer that here, I can include a list of what she’s done and the committees she is currently working in.

During her time on the New York City Council, Clarke served as the chair of the
powerful Contracts Committee and co-chair of the New York City Council
Women’s Caucus. She also served on the Education; Fire & Criminal
Justice Services; Health; Land Use; Planning, Dispositions &
Concessions; and, Rules, Privileges & Elections committees.

      

In congress, she is currently a member
of three House committees and two subcommittees within each committee.
Her House committee assignments are:
Education & Labor Committee
-Healthy Families & Communities subcommittee
– Health, Employment, Labor & Pension subcommittee
      

Homeland Security Committee
        -Transportation & Infrastructure Protection subcommittee
        -Management, Investigations, & Oversight subcommittee
      

Small Business Committee
        -Contracting & Technology subcommittee
        -Rural & Urban Entrepreneurship subcommittee