Observed congressional language, rendered as two cited automated composites.

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

“defense industrial base”

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 5 members; Republicans peak at 33 members, from 2025-01-08 through 2026-08-04.01633peak 33 · 2026-07-222025-01-082025-06-032025-11-122026-04-202026-08-04

Democrats  Republicans

First observed in our corpus
2025-01-08; Lane 1; corpus begins 2025-01-01; precision: day; first observed office: member name unavailable
Peak
33 members in one day · 2026-07-22
Distinctiveness
The full-history weight is withheld until the Archive release; it is not part of these public-window statistics.
Data points
202 active days

Peak-day evidence

On 2026-07-22, this exact phrase is grounded in 38 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 4 of 38 source receipts. (D: 1; R: 37)

Gilbert Ray Cisneros, Jr. (D-CA) · 2026-07-22 · source · archived
Andy Barr (R-KY) · 2026-07-22 · source · archived
Ann Wagner (R-MO) · 2026-07-22 · source · archived
Austin Scott (R-GA) · 2026-07-22 · 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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