Observed congressional language, rendered as two cited automated composites.

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

“than 4 billion”

As published“than $4 billion”

The measured identity is the normalized key above. This is one spelling of it as it appeared in the sources, chosen by frequency. Normalized key: than 4 billion

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.

Adoption curve: distinct offices using this phrase each day, by partyDemocratic offices, drawn as a solid line, peak at 2 on one day; Republican offices, drawn as a dashed line, peak at 3. The horizontal axis runs from 2025-01-16 through 2026-09-14; the vertical axis counts distinct offices, from 0 to 3.023peak 3 · 2026-09-142025-01-162025-06-042025-12-022026-06-092026-09-14

Democrats (solid line)   Republicans (dashed line)

First observed in our corpus
2025-01-16; Lane 1; corpus begins 2025-01-01; precision: day; first observed office: Mike Collins (R-GA)
Peak
3 members in one day · 2026-09-14
Distinctiveness
The full-history weight is withheld until the Archive release; it is not part of these public-window statistics.
Data points
20 active days

Peak-day evidence

On 2026-09-14, this exact phrase is grounded in 3 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 3 source receipts. (R: 3 of 271)

Eric Burlison (R-MO) · 2026-09-14 · source · archived
Gus M. Bilirakis (R-FL) · 2026-09-14 · source · archived
Jon Husted (R-OH) · 2026-09-14 · 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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