Observed congressional language, rendered as two cited automated composites.

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

“now more than 9 per pound”

As published“now more than $9 per pound”

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: now more than 9 per pound

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.

Not enough data points to plot an adoption curve.

Democrats (solid line)   Republicans (dashed line)

First observed in our corpus
2026-10-16; Lane 1; corpus begins 2025-01-01; precision: day; tied observations: Veronica Escobar (D-TX), Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Mark R. Warner (D-VA)
Peak
3 members in one day · 2026-10-16
Distinctiveness
The full-history weight is withheld until the Archive release; it is not part of these public-window statistics.
Data points
1 active days

Peak-day evidence

On 2026-10-16, 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. (D: 3 of 257)

Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY) · 2026-10-16 · source · archived
Mark R. Warner (D-VA) · 2026-10-16 · source · archived
Veronica Escobar (D-TX) · 2026-10-16 · 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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