Observed congressional language, rendered as two cited automated composites.

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

“to make sure”

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.

Phrase adoption curveDemocrats peak at 15 members; Republicans peak at 10 members, from 2025-01-03 through 2026-07-09.0815peak 15 · 2026-05-202025-01-032025-05-232025-10-092026-02-282026-07-09

Democrats  Republicans

First recorded in the public window
2025-01-03 (first active day in the public window; this derived record does not identify that day’s first carrier)
Peak
15 members in one day · 2026-05-20
Distinctiveness
The full-history weight is withheld until the Archive release; it is not part of these public-window statistics.
Data points
457 active days

Peak-day evidence

On 2026-05-20, this exact phrase is grounded in 21 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 21 source receipts. (D: 15; R: 6)

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) · 2026-05-20 · source · archived
Andy Kim (D-NJ) · 2026-05-20 · source · archived
Becca Balint (D-VT) · 2026-05-20 · source · archived
Ann Wagner (R-MO) · 2026-05-20 · source · archived
Pete Ricketts (R-NE) · 2026-05-20 · source · archived
Rick Scott (R-FL) · 2026-05-20 · 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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