Observed congressional language, rendered as two cited automated composites.

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

“according to the”

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 9 members; Republicans peak at 6 members, from 2026-06-01 through 2026-07-09.049peak 9 · 2026-06-182026-06-012026-06-112026-06-222026-07-012026-07-09

Democrats  Republicans

First recorded in our corpus
2026-06-01 by member name unavailable (tied with member name unavailable, member name unavailable)
Peak
9 members in one day · 2026-06-18
Distinctiveness
The full-history weight is withheld until the Archive release; it is not part of these public-window statistics.
Data points
32 active days

Peak-day evidence

On 2026-06-18, this exact phrase is grounded in 10 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 10 source receipts. (D: 8; R: 2)

Adam B. Schiff (D-CA) · 2026-06-18 · source · archived
Alex Padilla (D-CA) · 2026-06-18 · source · archived
Chellie Pingree (D-ME) · 2026-06-18 · source · archived
Mike Crapo (R-ID) · 2026-06-18 · source · archived
Zachary Nunn (R-IA) · 2026-06-18 · 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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