Observed congressional language, rendered as two cited automated composites.

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

“76 6 billion”

As published“76.6 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: 76 6 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 4 on one day; Republican offices, drawn as a dashed line, peak at 0. The horizontal axis runs from 2026-06-02 through 2026-07-29; the vertical axis counts distinct offices, from 0 to 4.024peak 4 · 2026-07-292026-06-022026-07-29

Democrats (solid line)   Republicans (dashed line)

First observed in our corpus
2026-06-02; Lane 1; corpus begins 2025-01-01; precision: day; first observed office: Peter Welch (D-VT)
Peak
4 members in one day · 2026-07-29
Distinctiveness
The full-history weight is withheld until the Archive release; it is not part of these public-window statistics.
Data points
2 active days

Peak-day evidence

On 2026-07-29, this exact phrase is grounded in 4 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 4 source receipts. (D: 4 of 257)

Jack Reed (D-RI) · 2026-07-29 · source · archived
Joe Courtney (D-CT) · 2026-07-29 · source · archived
Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) · 2026-07-29 · 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.)

← All phrases