Observed congressional language, rendered as two cited automated composites.

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

“lindsey graham r-s c”

As published“Lindsey Graham (R-S.C”

The measured identity is the normalized key above. This is one spelling of it as it appeared in the sources, chosen by frequency. Normalized key: lindsey graham r-s c

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.

Adoption curve: distinct offices using this phrase each day, by partyDemocratic offices, drawn as a solid line, peak at 3 on one day; Republican offices, drawn as a dashed line, peak at 7. The horizontal axis runs from 2025-01-07 through 2026-07-12; the vertical axis counts distinct offices, from 0 to 7.047peak 7 · 2025-09-182025-01-072025-04-022025-09-182026-02-092026-07-12

Democrats (solid line)   Republicans (dashed line)

First recorded in our corpus
2025-01-07 by Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) (tied with Ron Johnson (R-WI))
Peak
7 members in one day · 2025-09-18
Distinctiveness
The full-history weight is withheld until the Archive release; it is not part of these public-window statistics.
Data points
124 active days

Peak-day evidence

On 2025-09-18, 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. (R: 7)

Chuck Grassley (R-IA) · 2025-09-18 · source · archived
Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) · 2025-09-18 · source · archived
Jerry Moran (R-KS) · 2025-09-18 · 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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