Observed congressional language, rendered as two cited automated composites.

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

“its useful life”

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 5 members; Republicans peak at 1 member, from 2025-01-24 through 2026-07-09.025peak 5 · 2026-05-182025-01-242025-07-032025-11-192026-04-292026-07-09

Democrats  Republicans

First recorded in the public window
2025-01-24 (first active day in the public window; this derived record does not identify that day’s first carrier)
Peak
5 members in one day · 2026-05-18
Distinctiveness
The full-history weight is withheld until the Archive release; it is not part of these public-window statistics.
Data points
59 active days

Peak-day evidence

On 2026-05-18, this exact phrase is grounded in 5 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 3 of 5 source receipts. (D: 5)

Gabe Amo (D-RI) · 2026-05-18 · source · archived
Jack Reed (D-RI) · 2026-05-18 · source · archived
Jeff Merkley (D-OR) · 2026-05-18 · 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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