Observed congressional language, rendered as two cited automated composites.

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

“my colleagues in”

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 7 members; Republicans peak at 4 members, from 2026-06-01 through 2026-07-09.047peak 7 · 2026-06-262026-06-012026-06-092026-06-182026-06-262026-07-09

Democrats  Republicans

First recorded in our corpus
2026-06-01 by member name unavailable (tied with member name unavailable, member name unavailable)
Peak
7 members in one day · 2026-06-26
Distinctiveness
The full-history weight is withheld until the Archive release; it is not part of these public-window statistics.
Data points
25 active days

Peak-day evidence

On 2026-06-26, this exact phrase is grounded in 8 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 8 source receipts. (D: 7; R: 1)

Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) · 2026-06-26 · source · archived
Jacky Rosen (D-NV) · 2026-06-26 · source · archived
Mark Kelly (D-AZ) · 2026-06-26 · source · archived
John R. Curtis (R-UT) · 2026-06-26 · 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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