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 and”

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 15 members; Republicans peak at 12 members, from 2025-01-03 through 2026-07-09.0815peak 15 · 2026-06-302025-01-032025-05-222025-10-132026-02-282026-07-09

Democrats  Republicans

First recorded in our corpus
2025-01-03 by member name unavailable (tied with member name unavailable, member name unavailable, member name unavailable, member name unavailable)
Peak
15 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
404 active days

Peak-day evidence

On 2026-06-30, this exact phrase is grounded in 19 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 6 of 19 source receipts. (D: 16; R: 3)

Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) · 2026-06-30 · source · archived
Edward J. Markey (D-MA) · 2026-06-30 · source · archived
Frederica S. Wilson (D-FL) · 2026-06-30 · source · archived
Eric Schmitt (R-MO) · 2026-06-30 · source · archived
Michael T. McCaul (R-TX) · 2026-06-30 · source · archived
Thomas Massie (R-KY) · 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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