Observed congressional language, rendered as two cited automated composites.

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

“government that works”

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 2025-01-03 through 2026-07-30.047peak 7 · 2026-07-302025-01-032025-04-102025-10-022026-03-172026-07-30

Democrats  Republicans

First observed in our corpus
2025-01-03; Lane 1; corpus begins 2025-01-01; precision: day; tied observations: member name unavailable, member name unavailable, member name unavailable
Peak
7 members in one day · 2026-07-30
Distinctiveness
The full-history weight is withheld until the Archive release; it is not part of these public-window statistics.
Data points
86 active days

Peak-day evidence

On 2026-07-30, 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. (D: 7)

Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) · 2026-07-30 · source · archived
Eugene Simon Vindman (D-VA) · 2026-07-30 · source · archived
Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) · 2026-07-30 · 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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