Observed congressional language, rendered as two cited automated composites.

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

“joined u s”

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 2025-01-07 through 2026-07-24.036peak 6 · 2025-03-282025-01-072025-05-152025-10-022026-03-022026-07-24

Democrats  Republicans

First recorded in our corpus
2025-01-07 by member name unavailable (tied with member name unavailable, member name unavailable)
Peak
6 members in one day · 2025-03-28
Distinctiveness
The full-history weight is withheld until the Archive release; it is not part of these public-window statistics.
Data points
354 active days

Peak-day evidence

On 2025-03-28, this exact phrase is grounded in 8 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 5 of 8 source receipts. (D: 6; R: 2)

Christopher Murphy (D-CT) · 2025-03-28 · source · archived
Raphael G. Warnock (D-GA) · 2025-03-28 · source · archived
Richard J. Durbin (D-IL) · 2025-03-28 · source · archived
Thomas H. Kean, Jr. (R-NJ) · 2025-03-28 · source · archived
Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) · 2025-03-28 · 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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