Gale A. Brewer

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

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

Absent 0. Oct 29, 2025 to Oct 22, 2026.

• Committee on Education: 2.0 min of speech a meeting, range 0.9–3.5. In the same range as 10 other members.
• Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation: talk time not compared. Presides over its meetings, so isn’t compared with the members.
• Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection: talk time not compared. On a random sample of meeting time, between 44% and 61% of members' speech here carries a name; we rank when the low end reaches 60%.
• Committee on Contracts: talk time not compared. Fewer than four members can be compared fairly.
• Committee on Criminal Justice: talk time not compared. Seated for only 6 meetings in 12 months.
• Subcommittee on Early Childhood Education: talk time not compared. Seated for only 6 meetings in 12 months.
• Committee on Aging: talk time not compared. Seated for only 7 meetings in 12 months.
• Committee on Finance: talk time not compared. Seated for only 7 meetings in 12 months.
• Committee on Immigration: talk time not compared. Seated for only 6 meetings in 12 months.
• Committee on Oversight and Investigations: talk time not compared. Listed on the roster as Chair, so isn’t compared with the members.
• Committee on Hospitals: talk time not compared. Seated for only 1 meeting in 12 months.
• Committee on Higher Education: talk time not compared. Seated for only 2 meetings in 12 months.
• Committee on Governmental Operations, State & Federal Legislation: present at 21 of 21 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
• Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection: present at 14 of 17 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
• Committee on Contracts: present at 9 of 9 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
• Committee on Criminal Justice: present at 5 of 5 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
• Committee on Education: present at 11 of 14 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
• Subcommittee on Early Childhood Education: present at 7 of 7 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
• Committee on Aging: present at 5 of 6 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
• Committee on Finance: present at 6 of 7 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
• Committee on Immigration: present at 9 of 10 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
• Committee on Oversight and Investigations: present at 2 of 2 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
• Committee on Hospitals: present at 2 of 2 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk
• Committee on Higher Education: present at 2 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
• Task Force to Combat Antisemitism: present at 1 of 1 roll calls. Official roll call, from the clerk

We identified Brewer’s voice at 82 meetings across 13 bodies. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Brewer was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Gale A. Brewer’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 Brewer 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 Brewer or of New York alone.