David M. Carr

Present at 22 of 23 roll calls at the New York City Council

From the clerk’s own record. We don’t compare members on it.

Absent 1. Oct 29, 2025 to Oct 22, 2026.

• Committee on Rules, Privileges, Elections, Standards and Ethics: 3.0 min of speech a meeting, range 1.7–4.7. In the same range as four other members.
• Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation: 0.2 min of speech a meeting, range 0.0–0.8. In the same range as five other members.
• Committee on Finance: talk time not compared. Seated for only 7 meetings in 12 months.
• Committee on Land Use: talk time not compared. Seated for only 6 meetings in 12 months.
• Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises: talk time not compared. We could name only 19% of the speech they may have given; we compare members at 30%.
• Committee on Oversight and Investigations: talk time not compared. Seated for only 3 meetings in 12 months.
• Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management: talk time not compared. Seated for only 2 meetings in 12 months.
• Committee on Cultural Affairs, Libraries and International Intergroup Organizations: talk time not compared. Seated for only 4 meetings in 12 months.
• Committee on Rules, Privileges, Elections, Standards and Ethics: present at 16 of 16 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
• Committee on Finance: present at 7 of 7 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
• Committee on Land Use: present at 13 of 14 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
• Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises: present at 27 of 31 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
• Committee on Oversight and Investigations: present at 3 of 4 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
• Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation: present at 6 of 8 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
• Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management: present at 2 of 2 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
• Committee on Cultural Affairs, Libraries and International Intergroup Organizations: present at 4 of 5 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
• Committee on Parks and Recreation: present at 1 of 3 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
• Committee on Rules, Privileges and Elections: present at 1 of 1 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
• Committee on Standards and Ethics: present at 3 of 3 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk

A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Carr was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets David M. Carr’s name only when both agree and a code check finds the name said on, or just before, their turn. Voices our transcripts merge with someone else’s are never attributed, so every count here undercounts what Carr said. For councils and their committees, of 410 lines drawn, 352 were right, 0 wrong and 1 unclear, and the checkers couldn’t judge 57. We have since removed the voices behind 110 of those lines (0 wrong, 1 unclear, the rest we had already held for other reasons). Of the 300 lines we still publish, the checkers could judge 268: all 268 right (90% lower bound 0.99). They couldn’t judge the other 32. The check is one sample pooled across the five cities, not of Carr or of New York alone.