Pat Dalton and Stacie Weeks.

State Rep. Karen Clark, who was the lead sponsor of legislation legalizing same-sex marriage, will receive the lifetime achievement award as part of the fourth annual Leaders in Public Policy awards, sponsored by Capitol Report and Politics in Minnesota. Clark and the other honorees will be recognized at a ceremony at the Saint Paul Hotel on July 11.

Since reclaiming control of the Senate, the DFL has named a roster of committee administrators (CAs) to make the trains run on time for the newly appointed committee chairs. The DFL’s stranglehold on the Senate majority — relinquished only once, in 2010, since the modern partisan era started in the early 1970s — has given the caucus a deep bench to rely on.