Observed congressional language, rendered as two cited automated composites.

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

“lindsey graham r-sc”

As published“Lindsey Graham (R-SC”

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: lindsey graham r-sc

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 3 on one day; Republican offices, drawn as a dashed line, peak at 4. The horizontal axis runs from 2025-01-07 through 2026-07-12; the vertical axis counts distinct offices, from 0 to 4.024peak 4 · 2026-07-122025-01-072025-03-272025-09-162026-01-132026-07-12

Democrats (solid line)   Republicans (dashed line)

First recorded in our corpus
2025-01-07 by John Cornyn (R-TX) (tied with Tommy Tuberville (R-AL))
Peak
4 members in one day · 2026-07-12
Distinctiveness
The full-history weight is withheld until the Archive release; it is not part of these public-window statistics.
Data points
147 active days

Peak-day evidence

On 2026-07-12, 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 6 of 7 source receipts. (D: 3; R: 4)

Jack Reed (D-RI) · 2026-07-12 · source · archived
Richard J. Durbin (D-IL) · 2026-07-12 · source · archived
Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) · 2026-07-12 · source · archived
Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ) · 2026-07-12 · source · archived
Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY) · 2026-07-12 · source · archived
Daniel Webster (R-FL) · 2026-07-12 · 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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