Observed congressional language, rendered as two cited automated composites.

Automated measurement. Composite prose is generated from claims selected and counted by code.

“and their families”

As published“and their families”

The measured identity is the normalized key above. This is one spelling of it as it appeared in the sources, chosen by frequency. Normalized key: and their families

Adoption curve: how many independent members of each party used this exact phrase, by day. Where at least three distinct offices can be grounded, peak-day source receipts appear below.

Adoption curve: distinct offices using this phrase each day, by partyDemocratic offices, drawn as a solid line, peak at 16 on one day; Republican offices, drawn as a dashed line, peak at 8. The horizontal axis runs from 2026-06-01 through 2026-07-09; the vertical axis counts distinct offices, from 0 to 16.0816peak 16 · 2026-06-052026-06-012026-06-092026-06-182026-06-302026-07-09

Democrats (solid line)   Republicans (dashed line)

First recorded in our corpus
2026-06-01 by Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL) (tied with Norma J. Torres (D-CA))
Peak
16 members in one day · 2026-06-05
Distinctiveness
The full-history weight is withheld until the Archive release; it is not part of these public-window statistics.
Data points
30 active days

Peak-day evidence

On 2026-06-05, this exact phrase is grounded in 23 distinct source units (an office or joint-release family). The Peak figure above is the largest count for either party; this evidence total counts grounded units across both parties on that same day. Showing 6 of 23 source receipts. (D: 16; R: 7)

Angela D. Alsobrooks (D-MD) · 2026-06-05 · source · archived
Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) · 2026-06-05 · source · archived
Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) · 2026-06-05 · source · archived
Brad Finstad (R-MN) · 2026-06-05 · source · archived
Elise M. Stefanik (R-NY) · 2026-06-05 · source · archived
Jennifer A. Kiggans (R-VA) · 2026-06-05 · source · archived

Public Stage-1 phrase statistics begin 2025-01-03. Coverage for the same window is shown on the Methodology page. (The full-history “Alexandria” backfill to 2001 is staged for a later phase.)

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