Observed congressional language, rendered as two cited automated composites.

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

“department of transportation”

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 16 members; Republicans peak at 8 members, from 2025-01-04 through 2026-07-09.0816peak 16 · 2025-01-102025-01-042025-05-232025-10-162026-03-042026-07-09

Democrats  Republicans

First recorded in our corpus
2025-01-04 by member name unavailable
Peak
16 members in one day · 2025-01-10
Distinctiveness
The full-history weight is withheld until the Archive release; it is not part of these public-window statistics.
Data points
340 active days

Peak-day evidence

On 2025-01-10, this exact phrase is grounded in 16 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 16 source receipts. (D: 16)

Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) · 2025-01-10 · source · archived
Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) · 2025-01-10 · source · archived
Betty McCollum (D-MN) · 2025-01-10 · 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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