Observed congressional language, rendered as two cited automated composites.

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

“the united states is a”

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 2 members, from 2025-01-20 through 2026-07-04.025peak 5 · 2026-06-302025-01-202025-04-102025-06-272026-03-082026-07-04

Democrats  Republicans

First recorded in our corpus
2025-01-20 by member name unavailable
Peak
5 members in one day · 2026-06-30
Distinctiveness
The full-history weight is withheld until the Archive release; it is not part of these public-window statistics.
Data points
60 active days

Peak-day evidence

On 2026-06-30, 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 4 of 6 source receipts. (D: 5; R: 1)

Derek Tran (D-CA) · 2026-06-30 · source · archived
Jim Costa (D-CA) · 2026-06-30 · source · archived
Lauren Underwood (D-IL) · 2026-06-30 · source · archived
Michael T. McCaul (R-TX) · 2026-06-30 · 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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