Observed congressional language, rendered as two cited automated composites.

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

“the sudden passing of”

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 3 members; Republicans peak at 3 members, from 2025-03-05 through 2026-07-12.023peak 3 · 2026-07-122025-03-052025-03-062025-07-252026-04-242026-07-12

Democrats  Republicans

First recorded in our corpus
2025-03-05 by member name unavailable
Peak
3 members in one day · 2026-07-12
Distinctiveness
The full-history weight is withheld until the Archive release; it is not part of these public-window statistics.
Data points
6 active days

Peak-day evidence

On 2026-07-12, this exact phrase is grounded in 7 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 7 source receipts. (D: 4; R: 3)

Alex Padilla (D-CA) · 2026-07-12 · source · archived
Jack Reed (D-RI) · 2026-07-12 · source · archived
Jeff Merkley (D-OR) · 2026-07-12 · source · archived
Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ) · 2026-07-12 · source · archived
Mike Crapo (R-ID) · 2026-07-12 · source · archived
Rick Scott (R-FL) · 2026-07-12 · 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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