Observed congressional language, rendered as two cited automated composites.

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

“nearly 3 000”

As published“nearly 3,000”

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: nearly 3 000

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 13 on one day; Republican offices, drawn as a dashed line, peak at 8. The horizontal axis runs from 2025-01-07 through 2026-09-11; the vertical axis counts distinct offices, from 0 to 13.0613peak 13 · 2026-09-112025-01-072025-09-102025-11-292026-02-192026-09-11

Democrats (solid line)   Republicans (dashed line)

First observed in our corpus
2025-01-07; Lane 1; corpus begins 2025-01-01; precision: day; first observed office: Charles E. Schumer (D-NY)
Peak
13 members in one day · 2026-09-11
Distinctiveness
The full-history weight is withheld until the Archive release; it is not part of these public-window statistics.
Data points
36 active days

Peak-day evidence

On 2026-09-11, this exact phrase is grounded in 24 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 24 source receipts. (D: 16 of 257; R: 8 of 271)

Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) · 2026-09-11 · source · archived
Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) · 2026-09-11 · source · archived
Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) · 2026-09-11 · source · archived
Andrew R. Garbarino (R-NY) · 2026-09-11 · source · archived
August Pfluger (R-TX) · 2026-09-11 · source · archived
Bill Huizenga (R-MI) · 2026-09-11 · 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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