Observed congressional language, rendered as two cited automated composites.

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

“state and local”

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 · 2026-02-062025-01-032025-05-122025-09-302026-02-252026-07-09

Democrats  Republicans

First recorded in our corpus
2025-01-03 by member name unavailable (tied with member name unavailable, member name unavailable, member name unavailable, member name unavailable, member name unavailable)
Peak
15 members in one day · 2026-02-06
Distinctiveness
The full-history weight is withheld until the Archive release; it is not part of these public-window statistics.
Data points
429 active days

Peak-day evidence

On 2026-02-06, this exact phrase is grounded in 20 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 20 source receipts. (D: 15; R: 5)

Brittany Pettersen (D-CO) · 2026-02-06 · source · archived
Chellie Pingree (D-ME) · 2026-02-06 · source · archived
Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) · 2026-02-06 · source · archived
Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) · 2026-02-06 · source · archived
Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY) · 2026-02-06 · source · archived
Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) · 2026-02-06 · 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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