Observed congressional language, rendered as two cited automated composites.

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

“secretary of defense for”

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 4 members; Republicans peak at 4 members, from 2025-01-03 through 2026-07-24.024peak 4 · 2025-03-042025-01-032025-05-052025-09-182026-03-102026-07-24

Democrats  Republicans

First recorded in our corpus
2025-01-03 by member name unavailable
Peak
4 members in one day · 2025-03-04
Distinctiveness
The full-history weight is withheld until the Archive release; it is not part of these public-window statistics.
Data points
134 active days

Peak-day evidence

On 2025-03-04, this exact phrase is grounded in 6 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 6 source receipts. (D: 2; R: 4)

Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) · 2025-03-04 · source · archived
Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) · 2025-03-04 · source · archived
Jim Banks (R-IN) · 2025-03-04 · source · archived
Kevin Cramer (R-ND) · 2025-03-04 · source · archived
Roger F. Wicker (R-MS) · 2025-03-04 · 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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