Observed congressional language, rendered as two cited automated composites.

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

“service members and their families”

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 6 members; Republicans peak at 10 members, from 2025-01-03 through 2026-07-24.0510peak 10 · 2026-07-222025-01-032025-05-132025-11-062026-03-062026-07-24

Democrats  Republicans

First recorded in our corpus
2025-01-03 by member name unavailable
Peak
10 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
173 active days

Peak-day evidence

On 2026-07-22, 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 6 of 14 source receipts. (D: 4; R: 10)

Betty McCollum (D-MN) · 2026-07-22 · source · archived
Kathy Castor (D-FL) · 2026-07-22 · source · archived
Terri A. Sewell (D-AL) · 2026-07-22 · source · archived
August Pfluger (R-TX) · 2026-07-22 · source · archived
Clay Fuller (R-GA) · 2026-07-22 · source · archived
Gabe Evans (R-CO) · 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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