Observed congressional language, rendered as two cited automated composites.

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

“billion in federal”

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 7 members; Republicans peak at 2 members, from 2025-01-03 through 2026-07-29.047peak 7 · 2025-07-112025-01-032025-05-152025-10-162026-03-302026-07-29

Democrats  Republicans

First observed in our corpus
2025-01-03; Lane 1; corpus begins 2025-01-01; precision: day; tied observations: member name unavailable, member name unavailable
Peak
7 members in one day · 2025-07-11
Distinctiveness
The full-history weight is withheld until the Archive release; it is not part of these public-window statistics.
Data points
225 active days

Peak-day evidence

On 2025-07-11, this exact phrase is grounded in 7 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 3 of 7 source receipts. (D: 7)

Ilhan Omar (D-MN) · 2025-07-11 · source · archived
Jack Reed (D-RI) · 2025-07-11 · source · archived
John W. Hickenlooper (D-CO) · 2025-07-11 · 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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