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Observed congressional language, rendered as two cited automated composites.

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

“of south carolina”

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 3 members, from 2025-01-16 through 2026-07-12.036peak 6 · 2026-07-122025-01-162025-06-112025-12-052026-02-172026-07-12

Democrats  Republicans

First recorded in our corpus
2025-01-16 by member name unavailable (tied with member name unavailable)
Peak
6 members in one day · 2026-07-12
Distinctiveness
The full-history weight is withheld until the Archive release; it is not part of these public-window statistics.
Data points
94 active days

Peak-day evidence

On 2026-07-12, this exact phrase is grounded in 11 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 11 source receipts. (D: 8; R: 3)

Alex Padilla (D-CA) · 2026-07-12 · source · archived
Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) · 2026-07-12 · source · archived
Betty McCollum (D-MN) · 2026-07-12 · source · archived
Mark Harris (R-NC) · 2026-07-12 · source · archived
Michael R. Turner (R-OH) · 2026-07-12 · source · archived
Rick Scott (R-FL) · 2026-07-12 · 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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