Observed congressional language, rendered as two cited automated composites.

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

“i’m grateful to”

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 9 members, from 2025-01-03 through 2026-07-24.049peak 9 · 2026-03-182025-01-032025-06-052025-10-232026-03-182026-07-24

Democrats  Republicans

First recorded in our corpus
2025-01-03 by member name unavailable (tied with member name unavailable, member name unavailable)
Peak
9 members in one day · 2026-03-18
Distinctiveness
The full-history weight is withheld until the Archive release; it is not part of these public-window statistics.
Data points
345 active days

Peak-day evidence

On 2026-03-18, this exact phrase is grounded in 11 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 5 of 11 source receipts. (D: 2; R: 9)

Christopher A. Coons (D-DE) · 2026-03-18 · source · archived
Emily Randall (D-WA) · 2026-03-18 · source · archived
Bill Hagerty (R-TN) · 2026-03-18 · source · archived
Brett Guthrie (R-KY) · 2026-03-18 · source · archived
Dan Sullivan (R-AK) · 2026-03-18 · 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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