Observed congressional language, rendered as two cited automated composites.

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

“the federal level”

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 6 members; Republicans peak at 4 members, from 2025-01-03 through 2026-07-09.036peak 6 · 2026-01-272025-01-032025-05-222025-10-162026-03-042026-07-09

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
6 members in one day · 2026-01-27
Distinctiveness
The full-history weight is withheld until the Archive release; it is not part of these public-window statistics.
Data points
270 active days

Peak-day evidence

On 2026-01-27, this exact phrase is grounded in 6 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 6 source receipts. (D: 6)

Cory A. Booker (D-NJ) · 2026-01-27 · source · archived
Doris O. Matsui (D-CA) · 2026-01-27 · source · archived
Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) · 2026-01-27 · 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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