Journal # 1

Journal # 1

Congresswoman Yvette Clarke 11th Congressional District

Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke, resident of New York studied at City Public School System, received scholarship from Oberlin College and also earns a prestigious to being a fellowship of APPAH/Sloan in Public policy and policy analysis.

She was given seat at congress in November 2006 and represents the 11th Congressional District under which comes communities of Brownsville, East Flatbush, Windsor, Terrace, Borough Park, Carroll Gardens, Crown Heights, Flatbush, Sunset Park, Kensington, Prospect Heights, Prospect Park, Park Slope and Prospect-letters Gardens. Before that, she was initially elected to city service in 2001, from succeeding former City Councilmember Dr. Una S.T Clarke was the one to making them the first mother-daughter achievement in the historical frame of the New York City Council.

She is required to continue the district's legacy of excellence as were initiated and developed by the late Honorable Shirley Chisholm, who was the first African American women as well as Caribbean American elected to Congress. She sits on the House Small Business Committee, the House Education and Labor Committee and the House Committee on Homeland Security, where she holds a place of Chairwomen of the Subcommittee on emerging Cyber security, threats, and Science and Technology. During her leadership, legislation is being improvised by subcommittee and oversight on numerous issues, including bio defense, nuclear detection, cyber security, pandemic influenza preparedness, mitigating radiological attacks, homeland security research and development, agro-terrorism, and critical infrastructure protection, including particularly protection of the U.S electric grid. She is working on environmental issues development and national safety. Around approximately estimate that around 90 women currently serving in Congress.

Clarke is considered to be advocates of minorities and women and legislation that in the Council's Minority and Women- Owned Business Empowerment research that passes through that women and minority businesses are not awarded their fair share of city contracts.

Clarke is considered to be advocates of minorities and women and legislation that in the Council's Minority and Women- Owned Business Empowerment research that passes through that women and minority businesses are not awarded their fair share of city contracts.

Internship Experience

I had an internship experience at Congresswoman Office; it was for around six to seven weeks. I was so please by the welcome from congresswomen and its staff. I was assigned with work on some important legislative task and meaningful projects; with it some routine responsibilities were also assigned to me as handling with mails, phone calls and interacting with constituents.

Video Analysis

The Fracas over Hydrofracking: Energy, Economy, Environment

This video is about debate on the issue of hydraulic fracturing in New York is to be regarded as extraction of natural gas conducted by Moderator Bob with a panel of experts. Natural Gas drilling is growing prominently as the technology to retrieve it and increasing demand for energy sources, has evolved. For recovery of this issue, relatively new method recovery is hydraulic fracturing. Hydraulic fracturing drills into the shale and then go for pumping water, sand and chemicals into it to displace and recover ...