Observed congressional language, rendered as two cited automated composites.

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

“the united states is”

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 11 members; Republicans peak at 6 members, from 2025-01-08 through 2026-07-09.0611peak 11 · 2026-06-302025-01-082025-05-082025-09-292026-03-042026-07-09

Democrats  Republicans

First recorded in our corpus
2025-01-08 by member name unavailable (tied with member name unavailable)
Peak
11 members in one day · 2026-06-30
Distinctiveness
The full-history weight is withheld until the Archive release; it is not part of these public-window statistics.
Data points
321 active days

Peak-day evidence

On 2026-06-30, this exact phrase is grounded in 13 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 13 source receipts. (D: 11; R: 2)

Adam B. Schiff (D-CA) · 2026-06-30 · source · archived
Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) · 2026-06-30 · source · archived
Derek Tran (D-CA) · 2026-06-30 · source · archived
Andrew Ogles (R-TN) · 2026-06-30 · source · archived
Michael T. McCaul (R-TX) · 2026-06-30 · 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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