Observed congressional language, rendered as two cited automated composites.

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

“detention and deportation”

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 4 members; Republicans peak at 1 member, from 2025-01-07 through 2026-07-29.024peak 4 · 2026-01-222025-01-072025-07-312026-01-232026-03-252026-07-29

Democrats  Republicans

First observed in our corpus
2025-01-07; Lane 1; corpus begins 2025-01-01; precision: day; first observed office: member name unavailable
Peak
4 members in one day · 2026-01-22
Distinctiveness
The full-history weight is withheld until the Archive release; it is not part of these public-window statistics.
Data points
100 active days

Peak-day evidence

On 2026-01-22, 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)

Emilia Strong Sykes (D-OH) · 2026-01-22 · source · archived
Katherine M. Clark (D-MA) · 2026-01-22 · source · archived
Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-GA) · 2026-01-22 · 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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