Observed congressional language, rendered as two cited automated composites.

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

“customs and border”

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 20 members; Republicans peak at 27 members, from 2025-01-03 through 2026-07-24.01427peak 27 · 2026-06-092025-01-032025-06-132025-11-032026-03-162026-07-24

Democrats  Republicans

First recorded in our corpus
2025-01-03 by member name unavailable
Peak
27 members in one day · 2026-06-09
Distinctiveness
The full-history weight is withheld until the Archive release; it is not part of these public-window statistics.
Data points
317 active days

Peak-day evidence

On 2026-06-09, this exact phrase is grounded in 47 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 47 source receipts. (D: 20; R: 27)

Alma S. Adams (D-NC) · 2026-06-09 · source · archived
Brittany Pettersen (D-CO) · 2026-06-09 · source · archived
Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) · 2026-06-09 · source · archived
Andy Barr (R-KY) · 2026-06-09 · source · archived
Ann Wagner (R-MO) · 2026-06-09 · source · archived
Brad Knott (R-NC) · 2026-06-09 · 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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