Observed congressional language, rendered as two cited automated composites.

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

“small business owners”

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 13 members; Republicans peak at 8 members, from 2025-01-03 through 2026-07-09.0613peak 13 · 2026-01-082025-01-032025-05-092025-10-022026-02-242026-07-09

Democrats  Republicans

First recorded in the public window
2025-01-03 (first active day in the public window; this derived record does not identify that day’s first carrier)
Peak
13 members in one day · 2026-01-08
Distinctiveness
The full-history weight is withheld until the Archive release; it is not part of these public-window statistics.
Data points
350 active days

Peak-day evidence

On 2026-01-08, this exact phrase is grounded in 14 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 14 source receipts. (D: 13; R: 1)

Brittany Pettersen (D-CO) · 2026-01-08 · source · archived
David Scott (D-GA) · 2026-01-08 · source · archived
Donald G. Davis (D-NC) · 2026-01-08 · source · archived
John Barrasso (R-WY) · 2026-01-08 · 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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